Living in Sheffield with Pinochet's victims
When our city gave shelter to around 300 refugees from Chile after the coup, those of us who helped them soon realised that some would never recover, writes RUTH AYLETT
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ON “the other 9/11,” in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a coup against the democratically elected government of Chile, overthrew it, and started a campaign of mass imprisonment, murder and torture of his political opponents.
While the so-called “free world” was silent on this (where they had not already actively encouraged the coup), the international labour movement took a leading role in trying to rescue Pinochet’s targets.
In Britain, Edward Heath led a Tory government when the coup took place, but he was replaced in 1974 by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
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