[NYTr] Chileans Pay Tribute to Salvador Allende

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Granma Daily - Sep 10, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art51.html


Chileans Pay Tribute to Salvador Allende

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, September 9.— A large police deployment kept
thousands of Chileans from gathering to pay tribute to President
Salvador Allende in front of the La Moneda presidential palace on
Sunday, 34 years after his September 11, 1973 assassination and the
military coup led by Augusto Pinochet.

With access blocked to La Moneda, demonstrators opted to march to the
main Santiago cemetery to hold their memorial described as "the first
September 11 without Pinochet."

The march was headed by the Assembly of Human Rights and relatives of
abducted-missing persons, who, holding photos of their loved ones,
demanded justice. Leaders of the Chilean Communist Party and other
popular movements also attended.

The participants had at first gathered in a neighborhood three blocks
from government headquarters, but thousands of police on foot and
horseback, took up positions with metal barriers, water cannons and
tear gas.

After a brief dialogue with the ranking officer, who denied a permit to
march along the tree-lined La Alameda Avenue, the demonstrators
continued on to the cemetery on parallel streets.

More than 100 people were arrested in the one confrontation between
police and protestors that occurred before midday, reported AFP.

Several thousand Chileans were abducted, killed or "disappeared" during
Pinochet’s 1973 to 1990 military dictatorship. Many still remain
unaccounted for.