Post by account_disabled on Jan 29, 2024 6:00:53 GMT
The blood that has reddened our streets, our towns and our factories, the blood of civilians and the blood of soldiers, and the tears of so many women and children. We ask for respect for those who fell in the struggle and, first of all, for the one who until September 11 was the President of the Republic. We ask for moderation in the face of the defeated. That there be no unnecessary reprisals and that the sincere idealism that inspired many of those who have been defeated be taken into account. Let hatred end, let the hour of reconciliation come.” Less than a month after the coup, the Pro Peace Committee was founded, an ecumenical organization made up of Cardinal Silva Henríquez and Lutheran bishop Helmut Frenz , with the participation of Protestant churches and a representative of the Jewish community.
The Committee intended to provide economic, spiritual and legal support to all Chileans who needed it, especially to leftist militants hunted by repressive forces. It had doctors, social workers and lawyers throughout Phone Number Database the country. He also helped some 5,000 foreigners, generally left-wing Latin Americans who took refuge in Chile and supported the Allende government, to leave the country. In April 1974, the then head of the DINA, Colonel Manuel Contreras , visited Cardinal Silva Henríquez to make a veiled threat: “Cardinal, we know that there are many crazy people on the loose, we fear that something could happen to you. It would be good to take care of yourself.” The Peace Committee was dissolved in 1975, due to Pinochet's threat to close it in his own way.
The closure occurred after a confrontation between agents of the DINA and the MIR, in which the surviving Miristas took refuge in various parishes and in the Apostolic Nunciature. But the Church would not surrender to the regime. The performance of the Chilean Church after the overthrow of Allende contrasts with the role that the same institution played in Argentina, after the 1976 coup. “I'm going to put the refugees under my bed!” The official dissolution of Pro Paz occurred on December 31. Twenty four hours later, the Vicariate of Solidarity was born. With resources from the World Council of Churches, other episcopal conferences and foundations in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium, it became the main instrument for denouncing human rights violations.
The Committee intended to provide economic, spiritual and legal support to all Chileans who needed it, especially to leftist militants hunted by repressive forces. It had doctors, social workers and lawyers throughout Phone Number Database the country. He also helped some 5,000 foreigners, generally left-wing Latin Americans who took refuge in Chile and supported the Allende government, to leave the country. In April 1974, the then head of the DINA, Colonel Manuel Contreras , visited Cardinal Silva Henríquez to make a veiled threat: “Cardinal, we know that there are many crazy people on the loose, we fear that something could happen to you. It would be good to take care of yourself.” The Peace Committee was dissolved in 1975, due to Pinochet's threat to close it in his own way.
The closure occurred after a confrontation between agents of the DINA and the MIR, in which the surviving Miristas took refuge in various parishes and in the Apostolic Nunciature. But the Church would not surrender to the regime. The performance of the Chilean Church after the overthrow of Allende contrasts with the role that the same institution played in Argentina, after the 1976 coup. “I'm going to put the refugees under my bed!” The official dissolution of Pro Paz occurred on December 31. Twenty four hours later, the Vicariate of Solidarity was born. With resources from the World Council of Churches, other episcopal conferences and foundations in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium, it became the main instrument for denouncing human rights violations.