8 Officers Jailed for the Vicious torture and murder of Victor Jara!

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At last!! A scant piece of justice!! 8 retired Officers have been jailed for 15 years for their part in the terrible murder of Victor Jara and another was given 5 years for his part in covering it up. This follows on from a US court case where an ex-army lieutenant Pedro Barrientos living in America was found guilty of murdering and torturing Victor Jara. He is presently going through the process to be extradited to Chile to receive justice and has been ordered to pay £28 million in compensation to his family.

Victor Jara was a Folk Singer in Chile – a sort of South American Bob Dylan. He was a supporter of the socialist government of Salvador Allende who was deposed with the help of the CIA and replaced by the vicious dictator Augusto Pinochet (a friend of Margaret Thatcher). Pinochet was responsible for murdering 3,200 people and torturing 28,000. He was a monster.

Victor Jara is best known for songs such as Venceremos” (We Will Triumph). They killed him but they could not kill his songs.

Victor wrote songs of protest about injustices and songs in favour of freedom, justice and fairness. He was extremely popular with the common people.

When Pinochet’s coup took place they rounded up thousands of students and supporters of Allende. They were herded into a stadium and systematically tortured and killed. Thousands went missing and their bodies were never found.

Victor Jara was selected for special attention. They mockingly put a guitar in his hands and ordered him to sing. He sang We Shall Triumph. They smashed his hands and told him to sing. He continued to sing. They chopped his hands off with an axe and mocked him. He still sang. They smashed his teeth and ripped out his tongue and he still tried to make sounds. They killed him, tauntingly playing Russian roulette with him.

His body was thrown out on the streets riddled with 42 bullets.

It leaves me with a number of questions:

Is fifteen years prison adequate for such terrible things??

Why has it taken over 40 years for these monsters to be brought to justice?

Are the Tories happy to be associated with such people?

Why did Thatcher befriend, support and give succour to a monster like Pinochet?

Victor Jara and John Lennon – Poets murdered for their views. Thank you Michael Glen Bell. Poets Fall – The Project

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Victor Jara was a Chilean activist and singer. He was murdered by Thatcher’s favourite – General Pinochet. He sang songs of Love, Peace and Social Justice.

They tortured him, smashed his hands with a hammer and mocked him, telling him to play his songs. Eventually they shot him and threw his body into the street.

Lennon was gunned down in cold blood because a madman wanted fame.

 

This is Poets Fall by the Project

Victor Jara – A protest singer from Chile – Tortured and Murdered by Pinochet.

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Victor Jara was a communist. He was a singer of social songs. He sang songs of love and peace as well as Left-wing  songs of struggle and social justice. Victor believed in fairness and human rights.

He supported Salvador Allende who was a communist politician elected by the people of Chile. Phil Ochs met Victor, befriended him and sang with him in support of a miners’ strike.

The USA, as part of its campaign against communism, sought to destabilise Chile under Allende. The CIA used a lot of underhand tactics. It culminated in the support of the fascist military overthrow of the Allende government in a sponsored coup. On September 11th 1973 Allende was murdered and his government overthrown. General Pinochet took over and proceeded to deal with the Allende supporters.

Thousands were rounded up and taken into the football stadium where they were systematically tortured and killed.

Victor Jara taught at the university. He was rounded up along with students and other teachers. When they identified who he was he was singled out for special treatment. He was gruesomely tortured and killed.

The rumour was that he was instructed to play and sing for the prisoners in the stadium. They then either chopped his hands off with and axe or crushed his hands and told him to sing. He stood and sang. They ripped out his tongue and teeth and he still tried to make a noise.

He was finally killed when a soldier played Russian roulette with him. He loaded one bullet into the chamber, spun it, held it against Victor’s head and pulled the trigger. He did this a number of times until it fired.

Pinochet was supported by the Likes of Thatcher and the USA for forty years.

Over a thousand people were ‘disappeared’ under Pinochet. The hunt for their remains continues to this day. Victor Jara, a teacher and singer, was just one of many but he came to symbolise the terrible travesty and viciousness of the Pinochet regime.