Museum to Chile’s Pinochet sickens victims
Posted by svolk on 15th December 2008
Reuters, December 12, 2008 [MSNBC.com]
SANTIAGO – Family and friends of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet quietly inaugurated a museum in his memory on Friday, replete with uniforms and medals he wore, to the horror of victims of his rule.
Among items displayed at the new Pinochet Foundation museum in an upscale quarter of the capital, Santiago, are the last uniform he used as commander in chief of the Chilean Army along with dozens of his medals.
“I am happy because this is a way of doing some justice to what he represented and what he did,” said Lucia Hiriart, his widow, flanked by family and some former ministers and retired military. The event was low-key.
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