From September 11, 1973 to March 11, 1990, Chilean armed forces, the police and all those aligned with Pinochet’s military junta were involved in institutionalizing fear and terror in Chile. The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed.
In 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in Glasgow showed their support for the people of Chile by refusing to carry out vital inspections of engines for Hawker Hunter planes – the fighter jets were being used by the military against the people. The boycott endured for four years but the Scottish workers never knew what impact they had; it was a matter of conscience and an act of solidarity against General Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. Forty years later, Nae Pasaran reunites inspirational figures Bob Fulton, Robert Sommerville, John Keenan and Stuart Barrie to hear their story.