Publication: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Eichensehr, Kristen
Article Excerpt
The Pinochet Affair: State Terrorism and Global Justice, by Roger Burbach
Publisher: Zed Books (2004)
Price: $22.50
While most accounts of the prosecution of Augusto Pinochet focus on the undoubtedly dramatic progression of Pinochet's case in the British courts, Roger Burbach takes a different tack, construing The Pinochet Affair to include the pre- and post-history surrounding the British proceedings. Burbach draws on his personal familiarity with Chile since the 1970s--he fled the country during Pinochet's coup overthrowing Salvador Allende--and interviews with prominent figures in the Chilean human rights movement, judiciary, and political sphere. He constructs a picture of Augusto Pinochet as calculating his ascent to power, developing the necessary personality to order atrocities in pursuit of power, and using various tactics to avoid prosecution in Chile after his detention in London. Burbach tells a lucid story beginning with Pinochet's early years and continuing through Pinochet's recent evasion of Chilean courts. Burbach's access to key players in Chile provides especially good insight into the Chilean attempts to prosecute Pinochet since his return from London.
Burbach trumpets the Spanish and British judicial actions against Pinochet as a triumph of the human rights movement. He argues that the Pinochet affair more firmly ensconced the idea of universal jurisdiction in international law and that it inspired campaigns by human rights organizations to bring other human rights violators, such as Uganda's Idi Amin and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, to justice. He praises the establishment of the International Criminal Court as a "critical event in the advance of human rights law" (1) and touts...
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