Negationism of the military dictatorship of Chile
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The denialism of the military dictatorship in Chile is a type of negationist historical revisionism existing in Chile. It is a series of arguments and beliefs that seek to relativize, justify and even deny the crimes, human rights violations and antidemocratic actions committed during the military dictatorship (1973–1990).
During this period, members of the three branches of the Armed Forces of Chile, officials of Carabineros and plainclothes members of the secret police of the military dictatorship (the DINA and the CNI) carried out a policy of systematic, prolonged, mass repression and persecution, imprisonment, kidnapping, torture, murder and forced disappearance of political opponents to the dictatorship. In order to hide or disassociate itself from responsibility for these crimes, the regime systematically resorted to strategies such as the creation of false confrontations, censorship and disinformation.
According to the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (known as the "Rettig Report"), the National Reparation and Reconciliation Corporation, and the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture ("Valech Report)", the official number of direct victims would amount to 31,686 people, of which 28,459 cases were victims of torture and 3,227 cases were executed or missing victims (2,125 dead and 1,102 missing).[1]