Post by account_disabled on Jan 29, 2024 1:14:53 GMT -5
Shortly after noon on September 11, 1973 , the presidential palace of La Moneda was burning in flames under aerial bombardment by the military coup plotters, when a group of men abandoned the building and surrendered. They were members of the GAP - Group of Friends of the President , in charge of Salvador Allende 's personal security -, agents of the Investigative Police (PDI) and some advisors who accompanied the Chilean president in the final hours of the attack on the Palace. The men were taken to the Tacna Regiment, brutally tortured and two days later sent in trucks to the Peldehue military camp, where they were summarily executed. Simultaneously, throughout Chile the military carried out a relentless hunt for followers of the deposed socialist government.
Allende was dead and hundreds of his supporters would die in the coming days. The military regime that was established in Chile for 17 years would be marked by brutality and the practice of summary executions, with the Phone Number Database GAP among its first victims. The country was under a state of siege. Thousands of Chileans were taken to improvised prison camps . There were so many that eleven football stadiums were converted into prison and torture centers . The number 1 side of the military said that any “act of sabotage” would be punished “in the most drastic way at the scene of the incident.” Zone commanders and chiefs were authorized to hold court martials and apply the Fugue Law to justify executions. Foreign embassies were full of persecuted people trying to obtain political asylum and escape prison and death.
Thousands sought protection from various international organizations and others chose to leave the country clandestinely. September 11, 1973: Pinochet's betrayal Five hours after the start of the coup, the Military Junta issued order number 10. It contained the names of 92 members of the deposed Popular Unity government who should present themselves to the Ministry of Defense before four in the afternoon. Luis Maira was one of them. For 12 days, the former coordinator of the UP parliamentary group, then 33 years old, hid in Santiago, changing address every 24 hours, until he obtained asylum in the Mexican embassy. He stayed there for nine months with 200 other Chileans, until he managed to go into exile.
Allende was dead and hundreds of his supporters would die in the coming days. The military regime that was established in Chile for 17 years would be marked by brutality and the practice of summary executions, with the Phone Number Database GAP among its first victims. The country was under a state of siege. Thousands of Chileans were taken to improvised prison camps . There were so many that eleven football stadiums were converted into prison and torture centers . The number 1 side of the military said that any “act of sabotage” would be punished “in the most drastic way at the scene of the incident.” Zone commanders and chiefs were authorized to hold court martials and apply the Fugue Law to justify executions. Foreign embassies were full of persecuted people trying to obtain political asylum and escape prison and death.
Thousands sought protection from various international organizations and others chose to leave the country clandestinely. September 11, 1973: Pinochet's betrayal Five hours after the start of the coup, the Military Junta issued order number 10. It contained the names of 92 members of the deposed Popular Unity government who should present themselves to the Ministry of Defense before four in the afternoon. Luis Maira was one of them. For 12 days, the former coordinator of the UP parliamentary group, then 33 years old, hid in Santiago, changing address every 24 hours, until he obtained asylum in the Mexican embassy. He stayed there for nine months with 200 other Chileans, until he managed to go into exile.