"Pinochet Avoids Comment on Disappearances"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Lawyers for Gen. Augusto Pinochet moved Wednesday to prevent questioning of the former dictator by a judge about the disappearance of opponents during his 17-year reign.

Santiago Court of Appeals Judge Juan Guzman had ordered Pinochet to be questioned Thursday, after the Supreme Court last month stripped the general of the immunity he enjoyed as a former president.

But Wednesday, the Santiago Court of Appeals agreed to consider a request filed hours earlier by Pinochet's lawyers for the removal of Guzman from the case for allegedly showing "animosity" toward the 88-year-old former ruler.

While the court considers the request, the case will be taken away from Guzman, effectively preventing him from questioning Pinochet, and transferred to another judge. The court has no deadline for a ruling.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040909/D84VT4HO0.html

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1. September 11, 1973

Salvador Allende's last words to his beloved people. Tuesday morning September 11 1973

"This will surely be the last time I speak to you, Magallanes Radio will be silenced, and the reassuring tone of my voice will not reach you.

It doesn't matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be with you. At the least, your memory of me will be that of a man who was loyal to the country. . .

Placed in this historical transition, I will pay with my life the loyalty of the people. I say to you that I am sure that the seed that we now plant in the dignified conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans cannot be forever blinded. They have the power, they can smash us, but social processes are detained, neither through crimes nor power. History is ours, and the people creates it…

In this moment of definition, the last thing I can say to you is that I hope you will learn this lesson: foreign capital and imperialism united with reactionary elements, created the climate for the Armed Forces to break with their tradition…

I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other people will overcome this gray and bitter moment where treason tries to impose itself. May you continue to know that much sooner than later the great avenues, through which free people will walk to build a better society, will open …

Long live Chile!
Long live the People!

Long live the Workers!

These are my last words. I am sure that my sacrifice will not be in vain; I am sure that it will at least be a moral lesson which will punish felony, cowardice and treason."