The Chilean Junta Exposed and Condemned [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION In the second half of March 1974 the first session of the International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes of the Military Junta in Chile was held in Dipoli Hall in Helsinki. The Commission was established on the decision of the International Conference of Solidarity with the People of Chile held in September 1973 in the capital of Finland, and on the recommendations of the World Congress of Peace Forces held in October 1973 in Moscow. Prominent jurists, parliamentarians, scientists and public figures from all continents were invited by the preparatory committee headed by Ulf Sundqvist, Minister of Education of Finland, to take part in the work of the International Commission. The Commission is comprised of over 50 members from nearly 30 countries. Although they do not represent any specific organization or state, they do represent the broadest sections of the world public. They come from different social strata, have different political and religious views and adhere to different points of view on many contemporary issues. But in their attitude to fascism they all have a common platform: they hate fascism and regard struggle against fascism as the sacred duty of each honest-minded person regardless of his country. Man's conscience cannot reconcile itself to the crimes of followers of nazism. The arbitrary rule of the military junta in Chile, its persecution of democrats, its lawless and criminal actions are a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the international covenants on human rights adopted by the United Nations. That is why among the members of the International Commission who gathered in Dipoli Hall, bound by the common desire to help the Chilean people in their struggle against the criminal military junta, were Mario Scares, General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Portugal; Stanley Faulkner, a prominent US lawyer; Hein-rich Dürmayer from Austria, General Secretary of the International