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Protesters demand trial of Pinochet
SANTIAGO. Mar 4: Some 1.000 people staged a noisy protest here Friday night.‘demanding that ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet be prosecuted, and saying his apparent robust health upon return to Chile made a mockery of claims he was unfit to stand trial, reports AFP
Today all of Chile saw the return of the dictator, getting off the plane, walking, smiling and leaving no doubt he enjoys good health groups represent ing victims of the 1973-1990 said in a statement read at the gathering.
The march through central Santiago culminated at La Moneda. the presidential palace that was the target of air and ground attack in the 1973 military coup.
Protesters chanting "assas-sUi. assassin" held up photographs of friends or relatives who were among the thousands killed during the dictatorship.
The demonstrators lowered to half-mast the dozen flags that front La Moneda.
Pinochet arrived In Chile Friday morning one day after British Home Secretary Jack Straw freed him afte.r 16 months of house arrest. Straw ruled on medical advice that Pinochet was unfit to stand trial in Spain, where he is wanted on charges of torture
Up<5n arrival. Pinochet was taken to Santiago's Military
Hospital, but checked out nine I jours later
"IL whs all a farce, a make believe." said Patricia Silva whose brother was killed under the dictatorship and who heads a group representing victims of military rule
A total of 60 lawsuits have been filed in Chile against Pinochet, but. as a senator for life, the former dictator enjoys immunity from prosecution.
AP acids: In Chile, where the population is sharply divided over his 1 7-year-rulc. his supporters threw him a welcome that clearly demonstrated the backing he enjoys from the armed forces, right wing politl cians and prominent bus! nessmen.
Augusto Pinochet rescued Our country!" exclaimed Ana Maria Aguirre. 51. waving a large poster of Pinochet as he left the military hospital.
She charged that Chile had' been slipping into socialist chaos under Allende in the 1970s before Pinochet and his fellow officers stepped tn with their bloody coup.
Pinochet! Pinochet! Gracias! manv in the crowd shouted, as they were held back bv police around the gates of the hospital Many wore headbands inscribed with Pinochet's name or waved red. white and blue Chilean flags.
Marco Figueroa, a 22-vrai old student, said hr was over-
loved I am just so happy. I can I believe we have him back.
He added that Pinochet appeared more robust than expected because he was back at last on Chilean soil. He is hardy, he Is a soldier and he lound strength upon returning home." said Figueroa.
Pinochet left about nine hours later amid extremely tight security. Troops swiftly shut the doors of his whitewalled compound behind his Mercedes Benz when he reached home.
Across the city, dozens of human rights activists and relatives of dissident., who disappeared during Pinochet's regime held a vigil in front of the presidential palace.
Pinochet was arrested in London on Oct. 16. 1998. on a warrant issued by r. Spanish
The human rights groups maintained he looks healthy and that his Illness was a ruse lo avoid extradition to Spain.
"Pinochet is not as sick as they say. And it has been proved today with the kind of reception they organised for him." said Viviana Diaz, head of an organisation of relative! of the disappeared.
Straw's final report on Pinochet said doctors found it unlikely the general could fake mental incapacitation, and Chile’s interior minister dismissed claims of fakery.