Justice for Letelier timeline
Timeline of events seeking justice for the assassination of Orlando Letelier (last updated in October 2005).
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19 October 2005 |
The Institute for Policy Studies invites you to celebrate the legacy of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. The 29th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards will be held on 19 October 2005, National Press Club Ballroom, Washington DC. This year's awards recipients are Barrios Unidos, and Judge Juan Guzman of Chile. |
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18 September 2005 |
Sheridan Circle Memorial Ceremony for Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. Washington DC. |
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30 September 2004 |
28th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards at the National Press Club Ballroom with the Domestic Award going to Military Families Speak Out, presented by Mike Farrell, and the Special Recognition Award to Seymour Hersh, presented by Isabel Morel de Letelier |
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19 September 2004 |
Annual Sheridan Circle Memorial, to commemorate Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt's commitment to justice by celebrating this year's advances in the Pinochet case and in Chile's democratisation, organised by the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington. |
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3 February 2004 |
Roundtable talk on Confronting Challenges to the Pinochet Precedent and the Globalisation of Justice organised by the American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Institute for Policy Studies |
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14 November 2003 |
Conference The Pinochet Case. Lessons from a 30-Year Transnational Struggle Against Impunity organised by IPS and FLACSO-Chile, a meeting bringing together activists, NGOs, academics, lawyers, and journalists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the lessons to be learned from the the international campaign to bring Pinochet to justice. Conference papers (Spanish as well as English) are available on TNI's website. Santiago, Chile. |
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10-12 September 2003 |
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July 2003 |
Preparations for activities on the event of the visit to Delfzijl harbour in the Netherlands of the Chilean torture vessel "Esmeralda" (by TNI, Amnesty and Chilean organisations) lead to the cancellation of the visit. The Esmeralda also had to take Sweden and Spain off its itinary. The Esmeralda was due to arrive in Delfzijl on 16 June, and was also invited for "DelfSail", to take place 10-14 July. Campaigns against the ship, which has a notorious history as "torture boat" under Pinochet's dictatorship, take place all over the world, and have led to cancellations in Peru, Ecuador and Panama earlier this year. |
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September 2000 |
International Law Seminar "Toward a Law of Peoples", TNI Amsterdam. The impetus for this meeting is the sense that the Pinochet case has profoundly affected perceptions and applications of international law and that his has implications beyond traditional human rights cases. The intention is to bring together activists, legal academics and legal practitioners ro discuss the trends and to identify political priorities and opportunities for using international law as a means to establish new norms and rights in a range of areas. Among the participants: Joan Garces, Peter Weiss, Phyllis Bennis, Stacie Jonas, John Burroughs, Jackie Cabasso, Sophie Thonon, Marlies Stappers, Irune Aguirrezabal, and Marjolein Brouwer. |
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29 June 2000 |
Press Briefing at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the CIA and Defense Department release of top secret intelligence documents and on the 1973 murder of Charles Horman and other Americans in Chile. Speakers: Joyce Horman, widow of Charles Horman, Peter Kornbluh, director of the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, and Fabiola Letelier, Chilean lawyer and president of CODEPU. See: Pinochet Watch 22 |
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25 June 2000 |
Memorial Service for Victims of Torture on the Chilean Naval Vessel Esmeralda |
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January 2000 |
Sign-on letter to Spanish President Aznar and sign-on letter on Chile-US Free Trade as part of the Bring Pinochet to Justice Campaign. |
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9 December 1999 |
Juan Garcés at IPS, October 1999. Photo by Mariël Otten |
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11-12 November 1999 |
An Afternoon with Ariel Dorfman and The Pinochet Case: Implications for International Human Rights Law TNI Festival of Ideas, Balie, Amsterdam |
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10 May 1999 |
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October 1993 |
Ariel Dorfman delivers the Keynote Speech at this years' Letelier-Moffitt Dinner in Washington DC. |
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8 November 1984 |
Film "Chile. By Reason or by Force" from David Meyer and Helena Solberg Ladd of the International Women's Film Project. |
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23 September 1983 |
Invited by TNI on the occasion of the Letelier-Moffitt Memorial, Joan Jara speaks at the Balie on cultural repression in Chile. Simultaneously her book "Victor" is launched and promoted. |
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20 September 1983 |
7th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Memorial, Washington DC. (Award goes to Father J. Bryan Hehir and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) of Argentina). Proceedings were published with contributions from Gar Aplerovitz (poem), Peter Weiss, Coretta Scott King, Isabel Letelier, Emilio Mignone, Marcus Raskin and Father J. Bryan. |
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28 November 1982 |
"Que Hacer" (Landau, 1970) is openingsfilm at TNI's festival with Amsterdam Movie Theatre Rialto. Discussion between Saul Landau and John Berger. |
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21 September-12 October 1982 |
Exhibition at TNI of batik work by Lisa Kokin on the occasion of the Letelier-Moffitt Memorial, with festive opening. (Press coverage: Volkskrant, Waarheid, Uitgaan.) |
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24 September 1981 |
In honour of Letelier and Moffitt a movie is shown at TNI, entitled "Debts". Marcos Arruda gives an accompanying lecture. |
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21 September 1982 |
The 6th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Awards Ceremony is being held in Washington DC. This year's recipients are Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns from Brasil and the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), founded in 1977 to bring the attention of the world to the unethical and dangerous promotion of artificial formula in the Third World by multinational corporations. |
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21 September 1981 |
The 5th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Awards Ceremony is being held in Washington DC. This year's recipients are Jacobo Zimmerman and the Congregation of Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic. |
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1980 |
Assassination on Embassy Row, an account of the IPS investigation of the Letelier-Moffitt murders, by Saul Landau and John Dinges, is published. |
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10 November 1980 |
Letelier Memorial, Salvador Allende Centre, Rotterdam. |
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22 September 1980 |
The 4th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Awards Ceremony is being held in Washington DC. This year's recipients are Reverend William Wipfler of the National Council of Churches and the Legal Aid Office of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. |
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August 1980 |
TNI publishes "De ABN en Chili: De steun die een Nederlandse bank sinds 1977 aan Pinochet verleent" [The "General Bank of the Netherlands" and Chile: On the support given by a Dutch bank since 1977 to Pinochet] (in cooperation with the Chile Committee and research organisation MOL). |
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19 September 1979 |
3rd Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards (Howard University, Washington, DC.). This year's recipients are the Association of Relatives of Disappeared People (Chile) and Alfred 'Skip' Robinson of the United League of Mississippi. |
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21 September 1978 |
 
Meeting "Letelier Challenges Pinochet from the Grave", Friends House, London. Sponsored by: Race & Class, TNI, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Chile Committee on Human Rights, and Chile Solidarity Campaign. With speakers and films on "The Investigation into the Assassination Conspiracy" and "Multi-national Banks and Repression in Chile". Letelier-Moffitt Memorial in Sonesta Hotel, Amsterdam. Speech by Carlos Lazo, International Secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party, living in Paris. |
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21 September 1978 |
2nd Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights, Howard University, Washington DC. Awards go to Reverend Benjamin Chavis (black civil rights advocate, convicted and in jail) and Samuel Rubin. |
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19 September 1978 |
Press conference at TNI to release to the press the official indictments against eight conspirators in the assassinations of Letelier-Moffitt. Present: Political Secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party in Holland, Mr. Rodrigo Araya. TNI publishes They Educated the Crows An Institute Report on the Letelier-Moffitt Murders, written by Saul Landau. |
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April 1978 |
Isabel Letelier and Michael Moffitt publish "HUman Rights, Economc Aid and Private Banks. The Case of Chile", a report submitted to the Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, UN Commission on Human Rights. |
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21 September 1977 |
Memorial meeting for Letelier and Karpen Moffitt at KIT, Amsterdam, organised by TNI, Salvador Allende Centre, Chilean Socialist Party and Dutch Chile Committee. Minister Pronk, Relus ter Beek, ANDRÉ Van der Louw en Jorge Arrate as speakers. |
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19 September 1977 |
The Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Fund for Human Rights is established and the Letelier-Moffitt Awards become an annual convocation of human rights activists in Washington, DC. ISABEL LETELIER and MICHAEL MOFFITT present a copy of TNI Pamphlet 5 to Senator EDWARD KENNEDY at the Awards Ceremony |
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March 1977 |
TNI Reprints is published: The Letelier/Moffitt Murder - This is How it was Done By Saul Landau and Ralph Stavins, originally published in The Nation. |
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December 1976 |
TNI Reprints is published: In Memoriam: Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt by TNI Fellow Saul Landau, originally published in Mother Jones; and by Michael Moffitt, associate IPS fellow, originally published in Monthly Review. |
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26 September 1976 |
Funeral mass for Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, held at St. Mark's Cathedral, Washington DC. Address by Michael Moffitt |
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25 September 1976 |
A March is held in The Hague, from the Embassy of the US to the Chilean Embassy. André van der Louw, Mayor of Rotterdam, addresses the audience and delivers a speech. Meanwhile, a successful IPS/TNI investigation reveals the involvement of the Chilean secret service, DINA, in the assassination. Saul Landau and Ralph Stavins undertake the investigation, which leads to the indictment of Michael Townley and other suspects in 1979. |
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11-19 September 1976 |
Exhibition of Miguel Lawner, a Chilean architect and painter, who lives in exile in Denmark. Lawner had been imprisoned together with Letelier in a Chilean prison camp. The exhibition is opened by the vice president of the ruling Dutch Labour Party. The exhibition is visited by 350-400 people. A Dutch broadcasting company (VPRO) makes a documentary film on Orlando Letelier and the Chilean Junta. |
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7-8 March 1976 |
Planning Board meeting in Washington. Letelier at the TNI Amsterdam office |
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22-24 February 1974 |
TNI's FIRST CONFERENCE "The Lessons from Chile". Around 50 people participate. The conference received a lot of media coverage. Through the conference the institute played a significant part in formulating the political response to the fascist coup d'etat, and established itself as a serious presence among radicals in Europe. Participants include Jacques Chonchol, former Minister of Agriculture under Allende; David Baytelman, former head of the land reform programme; Claude Bourdet of Combat and Le Nouvel Observateur; Ralph Miliband of the University of Leeds; André Gunder Frank from the Free University of Berlin; Herbert Marcuse; Johan Galtung of the Institute of Conflict and Peace Research Oslo; as well as former US senator Eugene McCarthy. Links:
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As a contribution to the events in The Netherlands being organised to commemorate the 30th anniversary of General Pinochet's coup in Chile, TNI co-organises a number of public discussions with Roger Burbach, the author of a new TNI book 
Spanish lawyer Juan Garcés is presented in the Swedish parliament the 1999 Right to Livelihood Award, better known as the alternative Nobel Prize. Garcés is being awarded this distinguished prize for being the driving force behind Spain's efforts to bring general Pinochet to justice in a Spanish court for the human rights violations under his 1973 to 1999 Chilean dictatorship. 
TNI with the Committee against Impunity in Chile organise the Forum "The Pinochet Trial. Developments in the Pinochet Case" at De Balie, Amsterdam. Speakers Saul Landau (TNI), Joan Garcés, Fabiola Letelier (Chile), Oscar Vallespier (Chile) and Jan de Kievid. 100 participants.
