AWS Parliamentarians defend Pinochet in open letter to British Embassy
"Only Chile has the right to do justice for laws broken during the civil war [there]. Chilean citizens also have the right to announce amnesty," they wrote. "As citizens of a nation that was sentenced to live in the communist system, we know well what such a life means not only for opponents of the system but also for the existence of an entire nation. General Pinochet defended ordinary citizens against Marxist tyranny." (Rzeczpospolita, page 2, Reuters)