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In Chile, September 11 was marked by violent clashes between demonstrators and Carabinero military police, resulting in over 500 arrests and scores of wounded.
While the media in the US and Western Europe concentrated exclusively on ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Chile was rocked by protests in observance of the 29th anniversary of the US-backed coup that inaugurated 17 years of brutal military dictatorship.
That September 11, in 1973, also saw planes flying low over a country�s largest city, leaving one of its most important buildings in flames and its people in a state of shock. But in Chile it was the bombing of the La Moneda presidential palace, where the elected president, Salvador Allende, died. The attack inaugurated a bloodbath from which Chile has yet to recover.
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Lagos used the occasion of the anniversary to make a ritualistic appeal for �reconciliation� between the torturers and the tortured. Those who took an active part in the coup and the subsequent repression, he said, �must have a moment of contrition.� He then praised the armed forces for making �a definitive contribution.�
This same theme was sounded in a bizarre joint television appearance by the grandson of Allende and the granddaughter of Pinochet. Maria Jos� Pinochet conceded that her grandfather may have been �politically� responsible for human rights violations during his 17-year reign, but added that he was so busy that �some things got by him.�
Gonzalo Meza Allende, for his part, echoed the current position of his grandfather�s Socialist Party, praising the Pinochet dictatorship for its �successful� economic policies.

The military used the occasion to further its demand for a �full stop� amnesty, guaranteeing that no one will ever be held accountable for the assassinations, kidnappings and torture committed under the dictatorship......

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