Good One Dion-- Guardian Weekly.

[janice]

Dions letter to the Guardian, with thanks to Mathew.
j.

ERIC HOBSBAWM (December 13) says there is a
view among Chile's left that democracy would be
endangered by Pinochet being tried outside his
safe haven.

However, on the democracy-dictatorship or
justice-injustice scale the left has a long history of
equivocation, as demonstrated by the decades of
support for the Soviet dictatorship against its
democratic critics. Backroom "left-right" deals
among Chile's movers and shakers won't
consolidate democracy.

Much more was done for democracy in
neighbouring Argentina by humiliating
its military machine than by respecting its
"sensitivities". Here's a chance to humiliate
Chile's criminal army without firing a shot.

Dion Giles,
Fremantle, Western Australia

The Guardian Weekly Volume 159 Issue 25
week ending December 20, 1998,
Page 2

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