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safeinOhio

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1. The Pinochet Affair: I saw them herded to their death. I heard the gunfire as they died'

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 05:18 PM

Dec 2018

"THERE WERE two lines. We called them the line of life and the line of death. One line led out, away from the stadium, the other led inside," Adam Schesch, a veteran of the 1973 coup in Chile, recalls.
"The demeanour of people in the one line seemed relaxed. The people in the other line were heavily guarded. They seemed stunned, stolid-faced. We never saw those people again."

In September 1973, Mr Schesch was held prisoner for 10 days in the bowels of Santiago's national stadium as the madness and evil of a military coup played out in front of him.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-pinochet-affair-i-saw-them-herded-to-their-death-i-heard-the-gunfire-as-they-died-1179543.html

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The Pinochet Affair: I saw them herded to their death. I heard the gunfire as they died' safeinOhio Dec 2018 #1

To say nothing of neighboring Argentina. sandensea Dec 2018 #2

So glad Mr. Schesch made his statement to someone outside the US media. Judi Lynn Dec 2018 #3