Thursday, January 7, 2010

Chile to open museum dedicated to Pinochet torture victims

SANTIAGO, Chile - -- What they'll put in and what they'll leave out -- that question haunts Margarita Iglesias as she considers next month's opening of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. 


That Chile is recognizing victims of its military dictatorship in a striking new "monument to memories" is positive, said Iglesias, both a victim and a historian of Augusto Pinochet's bloody 17-year rule. As a high school student activist in Santiago in 1975, she was tortured before fleeing with her family to France.


Read more at the Chicago Tribune

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