Spain Pinochet - Reaction to the death of Pinochet from Salvador Allende's daughter
NAME: SPA PINOCHET 20061211Ix
TAPE: EF06/1205
IN_TIME: 10:04:01:07
DURATION: 00:04:03:03
SOURCES: EFE / AP PHOTOS
DATELINE: Madrid - 10 Dec 2006
RESTRICTIONS: see script
SHOTLIST
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Madrid - 10 December, 2006
1. Isabel Allende (daughter of former Chile President Salvador Allende) with supporters.
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Santiago, Chile - 5 July, 1973
2. STILL: Chilean President Salvador Allende at his news conference, for foreign journalists.
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Madrid - 10 December, 2006
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Isabel Allende, daughter of former Chile President Salvador Allende:
"At this moment I think about the people who died, the ones who have been assassinated and tortured. I also think about my father (Salvador Allende). What hurts me is to think that justice will finally never be made. I would have preferred for my country and its dignity and to guarantee the rule of law that he would have been judged. He died as an old person with a lot of unresolved trials, including his highly questionable fortune. I would have preferred to see him ending his life."
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Santiago, Chile - 23 August, 1973
4. STILL: General Augusto Pinochet, left, and President Salvador Allende attend a ceremony naming Pinochet as commander in chief of the Army, 18 days before Pinochet coup
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Madrid - 10 December, 2006
5 SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Isabel Allende, daughter of former Chile President Salvador Allende:
"He died. He was a discredited person. He was more and more isolated. Few of his political supporters would even visit him. Great attention was made on his fortune and how he made it as well as the corruption. It is terrible, people were ready to keep the human violation secret and keep Pinochet in power, but his corrupted regime and the money he robbed could not be accepted.
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New York, 4 December, 1972
6. STILL: Chilean President Salvador Allende addresses UN General Assembly
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Madrid, 10 December, 2006
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Isabel Allende, daughter of former Chile President Salvador Allende:
"As I said, I am hurt that he died in peace. But the files are still open, and the legal process should carry on. Therefore I believe he does not deserve any type of official funeral, no way. He was a dictator, he was not elected by popular sovereignty, so I have no doubts about Michelle Bachelet's government. Michelle Bachelet who has suffered so much during the dictatorship could not lead an official funeral."
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Santiago, 1971
8. STILL: Chilean President Salvador Allende
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Madrid - 10 December, 2006
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Isabel Allende, daughter of former Chile President Salvador Allende:
"There cannot be any reconciliation while the legal process is still open. We have to keep in mind that still, people have not been found and that families are still looking for their loved ones. Therefore it is unthinkable to call for a reconciliation. I do not understand why we have to ask for a reconciliation. But I call for justice and to recall what happened during these years (of dictatorship). No more coup d'etat, no more human rights violations, no more assassinations.
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Santiago, 11 September, 1973
9. STILL: The body of President Salvador Allende, wrapped in a Bolivian poncho, is carried by soldiers and firefighters from the destroyed presidential palace of La Moneda after Pinochet coup.
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Madrid -10 December, 2006
10. Isabel Allende with supporters
STORYLINE
The daughter of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who died rather than surrender to a 1973 coup led by the right-wing general Augusto Pinochet said on Sunday she was 'hurt' that Pinochet had died in peace.
Isabel Allende pleaded for legal investigations into charges of torture and human rights abuse to go on.
And she expressed sorrow that much had been made of allegations about Pinochet's private fortune and claims of corruption, while his conduct in power had been partly ignored.
"Great attention was made on his fortune and how he made it as well as the corruption. It is terrible, people were ready to keep the human violation secret and keep Pinochet in power, but his corrupted regime and the money he robbed could not be accepted." she said at a hotel in Madrid.
She said that Pinochet could not be forgiven by the people while so many questions remained about the people who died mysteriously or disappeared under his government.
"There cannot be any reconciliation while the legal process is still open. We have to keep in mind that still, people have not been found and that families are still looking for their loved ones", she said.
She said Pinochet did not deserve any sort of official funeral.
"No way. He was a dictator, he was not elected by popular sovereignty," she said.