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Honouring Chile’s disappeared
Chilean resistance activist SERGIO VASQUEZ addressed a gathering unveiling a plaque in the city of Sheffield marking the 51st anniversary of the 1973 fascist coup in Chile on Saturday — we reprint his powerful speech here
One of the many protesters against former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, in Parliament Square, 2000

SEPTEMBER 11 1973, marked the beginnings of one of the darkest periods in our country’s history.

There were widespread human rights violations, political repression, and the systematic elimination of trade unionists, students, teachers, lecturers, peasants, shantytown dwellers, and the assassination of our president Salvador Allende.

With the full support of the armed forces, the dictator, Pinochet, they established a brutal regime, suppressing all civil liberties, and persecuting political opponents.

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