Canada's Afghanistan War: Don't extend it. End it!
AlJazeeraEnglish | August 31, 2010
We mark the International Day of the Disappeared and ask: What is being done to end forced disappearances, and what will it take to get justice?
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International Day of the Disappeared
See also: International Day of the Disappeared
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The military coup in Chile took place on September 11, 1973. General Augusto Pinochet was dictator of Chile until 1986, when he was unseated by a democratic election, the results of which he initially tried to discard. It is estimated that several thousands of Chilean citizens were tortured, murdered or “disappeared.” The suspicion is that many murdered people were disappeared by being taken in helicopters and dropped in the ocean, never to be found. A few years ago the Chilean Rettig Commission (named for the surname of the presiding authority) began investigating claims of citizens (or on their behalf by relatives) who were detained, tortured, murdered or disappeared. A report by the Comisión Rettig was released, and a second commission doing more of the same investigations has been in operation in 2010. The second commission is called Comisión Valech. The full name of the commission is “Comisión Asesora para la Calificación de Detenidos, Desaparecidos, Ejecutados Políticos y Víctimas de Prisión Política y Tortura.” Let’s remember on International Day of the Disappeared the Chileans and their friends and family members who belong to this group. Many of the detained and tortured were released and became political refugees to Canada in the 1970s, barred from returning to their home country until being repatriated in the 1980s by a United Nations committee.