"Pinochet´s military government was far more frequently denounced by western media than other regimes with far more horrendous human-rights records. [...] While operation TOUCAN* was at the height of its success, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were in the midst of a reign of terror in Cambodia wich in only three years killed 1.5 million of cambodia's 7.5 million people. Yet in 1976 The New York Times published 66 articles on the abuse of human rights in Chile, as compared with only 4 to Cambodia. The difficulty of obtaining information from Cambodia does not provide a remotely adequate explanation to this extraordinary descrepancy."
"Official comissions established by Chile´s civillian governments after the end of military rule in 1990, established a total of 3 197 extra-judicial executions, deaths under torture and "disapearences" during the Pinochet era."
"Official comissions established by Chile´s civillian governments after the end of military rule in 1990, established a total of 3 197 extra-judicial executions, deaths under torture and "disapearences" during the Pinochet era."
* a operação TOUCAN, contituiu o que se designa por "active measures", operações de contra-informação, delineadas pelo KGB especificamente dirigidas contra a DINA [dirección de investigaciones nacional - Chile] no sentido de publicitar de forma exagerada, operações levadas a cabo em países teceiros, contra antigos colaboradores de Salvador Allende (tradução livre a partir do original).
In "The Mitrokhin Archive, The KGB and the world, volume II" - Christopher Andrew and Vassili Mitrokhin, Penguin Books, páginas 87 e 88.
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