The Pinochet Affair
State Terrorism and Global Justice
This book tells the epic story of the events that surrounded the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998.
TNI and the Pinochet precedent
This book tells the epic story of the events that surrounded the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998. Beginning his narrative with the violent military coup that Pinochet led on september 11 1973, Roger Burbach discusses what led the dictator to murder thousands of his own people and to authorize acts of international terrorism in Argentina, Italy and Washington DC. He describes the global clash that ultimately took place in Spain, Britain and Chile to bring him to justice, and the impact the Pinochet afair has had around the world as the global human rights community seeks to establish an international regime of justice.
'... provides vivid portraits of many of the leading human rights activists, lawyers and judges who succeeded in ... making the dictator one of the most ignominious figures of contemporary history.' - Isabel Allende
Key points
* The extraordinary and dramatic story of how General Pinochet of Chile came to justice
* Explains the wider significance for international human rights law and the principle of universal jurisdiction
* A modern political history of Chile and the role played by the US in its affairs
Introduction: The First September 11 That Shook the World
- The Dictator's Prelude: Allende, Chile and the Coup
The Chilean Road to Socialism
The Imperial Adversary
A Thousand Days of Drama
The Battle of La Moneda - The Formation of a Dictator
The Neighborhood Bully
Pinochet's Infatuation with Strongmen and Authoritarianism
A Sociopath in Constitutional Drag
Deceit, Treachery and the "Crucial Day" - Quest for Absolute Power
Pinochet's "Total War"
DINA and the Consolidation of State Terrorism
Eliminating Military Adversaries - Globalization of the Chilean Human Rights Movement
The Arduous Birth of the Chilean Human Rights Movement
Internationalizing the Human Rights Struggle
The United States: Dictators and Double Standards
U.S. Assault Against the Left - The Bitter Transition, 1990-1998
Protected Democracy
Justice Vs. Impunity
Judicial Change
The Eve of Pinochet's Departure - The Entrapment of a Dictator
Judge Baltesar Garzón Takes Center Stage In Spain
Pinochet and the Iron Lady on the London Stage
"We Lost Our General"
The "Londonazo" in Chile - Five Hundred Days in the British Docket
The House of Lords Vs. the General
The General's "Rent-a-Mob" in London
Back to the Spanish Stage
The Autumn of the Patriarch in London
The Betrayal of the Politicians - Pinochet's Return and the Reckoning in Chile
Juan Guzman: The Judge Who Trapped Pinochet
Lagos' Betrayal
Pinochet: Hiding Under the Military's Skirts
The Indictment of the Dictator
The Hounded Dictator in His Liar - Conclusion: State Terrorism Versus the Globalization of Justice
State Terrorism and the United States
The End of the Cold War and Human Rights
The Pinochet Affair and Advances in Human Rights
See also State Terrorism and september 11, 1973 & 2001 The Guardian, 11 September 2003
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