Remembering the victims of the Pinochet regime

 


I met a Chilean man who said Pinochet wasn't that bad, the economy was good, and "only" some 2000 people got killed, not tens of thousands... Well, as far as I am concerned, it was a brutal dictatorship that may have been good for some but brought misery to most of the population. And even if only 1 person got killed, that's already 1 too many. And what about those who didn't get killed, only imprisoned and tortured? And how many went missing, not counted as dead? How many had to leave Chile? I was only a kid, but I remember the influx of Chilean refugees who came to Hungary. No matter how hard you try, you cannot convince me Pinochet wasn't that bad.

 
La Moneda, the presidential palace which the coup forces bombed on September 11, 1973, and where Chile's lawful president, Salvador Allende, died.






The Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM), formerly known as the Diego Portales Building, is a cultural centre that was built by the government of Salvador Allende. After the coup d'état, it was used as the headquarter of the Pinochet regime.







Londres 38 is a little building in an elegant area of central Santiago - it was used by Pinochet's secret police, DINA, to torture and kill people.





















The national stadium of Chile, Estadio Nacional, was used as a mass imprisonment, torture, and extrajudicial execution facility by the Pinochet dictatorship.



The Museum of Memory and Human Rights, or Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Spanish, is a place that commemorates the victims of human rights violations during the military dictatorship of Pinochet.




























The Memorial del Detenido Desaparecido y del Ejecutado Político, or the Memorial for the Disappeared Detainees and the Political Executed, is located inside Santiago's main cemetery - it is a place to commemorate those who disappeared or were executed during the Pinochet era.
























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