NJAMA KUBWA ZA VYOMBO VYA USALAMA DHIDI YA WAPINZANI / RAIA HURU HUKO LATIN AMERICA (CHILE)
Operation Condor
A criminal conspiracy to forcibly disappear people
1. COORDINATED REPRESSION
2. CONDOR I, II AND III
3. ORLETTI II
4. SOME OF THE STORIES TOLD DURING THE TRIAL
5. THE RIGHT TO TRUTH
6. THE ACCUSED AND THE VICTIMS
7. THE VERDICT
Within the context of Operation Condor, the coordinated repression passed through different phases:
-In the first, a centralized database was created on guerrilla movements, left-wing parties and groups, trade unionists, religious groups, liberal politicians and supposed enemies of the authoritarian regimes involved in the operation.
-In the second, people considered political “enemies” at the regional level were identified and attacked.
-In the third and final phase, operations were carried out to track down and eliminate persons located in other countries in the Americas and Europe.
The declassified documentation available shows that various US government agencies had early knowledge of the scope of the repressive coordination and did not make much effort to stop it until it had reached the third phase, which proved the most problematic because the operations could no longer be kept under wraps
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Augusto Pinochet-Ugarte
6 Nov 2012 — The mental state of General Pinochet however was still subject to controversy at the time. 2. Second case: «Operation Condor
Operation Condor (case closed on 17 June 2005)
Acts of torture, abductions, forced disappearances and summary executions were committed during the dictatorship. The elected government which succeeded Pinochet published, on 4 March 1991, an official report listing 3,197 deaths and 967 disappearances during the 17 years of Pinochet’s presidency. The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, set up in August 2003, transmitted to President Ricardo Lagos, on 11 November 2004, a report indicating that torture was practised systematically under the Pinochet regime.
More than 200 criminal complaints were filed against Pinochet in Chile by close relatives of the victims. The proceedings, conducted mainly by Judge Juan Guzman Tapia, were based on two events. First, the abduction of 75 political opponents followed by the summary execution of 56 of them and the disappearance of 19 others: these acts were committed by a military unit known by the name of the “Caravan of Death” which criss-crossed the country in the months following the coup d’état. The second event related to the so-called “Operation Condor”, a quasi network of all the Secret Services of the South-American dictatorships (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) whose purpose was to eliminate political opponents abroad. The Chilean Secret Service (the DINA), under the command of Manuel Contreras, a close ally of Pinochet, was thought to have played an important, if not fundamental, role in promoting this project. Manuel Contreras was judged and convicted in Chile. It was during his trial in 1997 that Pinochet’s responsibility as the real head of the DINA became apparent.
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Operation Condor - LatinAmericanStudies.org
Operation Condor was an intelligence organization in which multinational teams tracked down dissidents outside their home countries, captured and