Elderly criminals and evil old men
Elderly criminals and evil old men
Author(s): Vojin DimitrijevićSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Criminology, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Fabrika knjiga
Keywords: Political enemies; assassination; criminal; president; politics; power;
Summary/Abstract: Former President of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, whom people with slightly longer memories remember as the man who ordered the assassination of his legally elected predecessor Salvador Allende, who also presided over the torture and liquidation of many others and, because of lack of prison space, used football stadiums to detain thousands of real and assumed political enemies, arrived in Great Britain at the age of eighty two for treatment of his ailing back. Several states demanded his extradition in order to try him in their courts. This case reached the House of Lords (which in this strange country also plays the role of the supreme court) on two separate occasions. […]
Journal: Reč
- Issue Year: 2000
- Issue No: 58.4
- Page Range: 63-65
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
