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With just 531 criminal convictions from the 42 365 complaints, either South Africans are going out of their way to tell a whole bunch of outrageous lies or the state isn’t all that interested in doing something about police brutality.

‘I murdered 18 people for the Pinochet regime’

Suicidal man confesses on a live radio phone-in to participating in the deaths of opponents of the late military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet’s men held 29 years after burning activists alive

The case of one of the most notorious torture cases of the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet over Chili was reopened in 2013.

Relief at voices of trapped miners

Relief at voices of trapped miners

Psychologists ‘happily surprised’ by condition of miners after 19 days on shift foreman’s strict rationing in underground bunker.

‘Hallowed be thy left foot’

The congregation screams so loudly that I can’t hear the priest, even though I’m in the front row.

Global whistle-blowing website shut down

A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up Wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to…

Mum set to shatter Chile’s political traditions

Michelle Bachelet was a 23-year-old medical student in Chile when a gang of military men broke into her house and kidnapped her and her mother, Angela Jeria. It was January 1975,…

Pinochet regime tortured 35 000

A year-long investigation into state-sponsored torture in Chile has documented that about 35 000 people were abused during the 1973 to 1990 military regime. The three volume-long…

Chile revisits the coup

On the eve of the 30th anniversary, Chile is engaged in a new debate on how to resolve the human consequences of the coup. New proposals offer a chance to clean the slate of the…

Kissinger may face extradition to Chile

Henry Kissinger may face extradition proceedings in connection with the role of the US in the 1973 military coup in Chile. He is wanted for questioning as a witness in the…