Pinochet

[Bob Phillips]

Today, the world is a (very slightly) better place, Augusto Pinochet is dead, and few sane, reasonable people will mourn his passing. The biggest regret is that he wasn't brought to justice for his crimes, for his repression of democracy, and for the many thousands who suffered under his brutal, evil, totalitarian regime.

Seeing Margaret Thatcher thanking him for bringing 'democracy' to Chile made me wince, wondering why the world was so insane. Geoffrey Robertson QC got it right when he said today that '... he (Pinochet) will not be going to heaven, if there is a hell, that is where he is headed...'.

Oh, and let's not forget the role that the CIA and the US government played in that despicable act in 1973. Pinochet didn't have the capability of doing it on his own. Leader of the free world.

[lucas]

And yet Edi Amen and Pol Pot will or have died peacefully of old age...as if those events never happened.

[Bob Phillips]

Yes it is not good that they were able to die of old-age, unlike their victims. As will Robert Mugabe. A thouand curses on all their heads, and shame on us for not caring about, even supporting, such atrocities in many cases.

[Zack Barresse]

I didn't even know about them. :dunno

[lucas]

Edi Amen murdered millions in Africa and Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia during the killing fields era. Augusto Pinochet, Sadam, et al are very bad people but they look like boy scouts by comparison.

[Bob Phillips]

And don't forget Mao-Tse-Tung, Stalin, and Hitler. Their 'score' is estimated at 65, 25 and 10 million.