Reply #5: Video of Henrichsen filming his own death [View All]

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Can be seen at the bottom of the article at link below (I too saw it years ago.)
http://www.elobservatodo.cl/admin/render/noticia/9488

The soldier who order his troops to shoot at him died in Chile on 18 Dec. 2007 of pneumonia and lung cancer before he could be tried. The shot that killed Henrichsen actually came from a soldier on the truck you can see in the video. The shots are clearly audible.

The video shows the instant he was hit and the camera tumbles to the ground. He was hit in the neck.

Background on the Tanquetazo: Many Chileans considered the coup attempt to be a dress rehearsal for the Sept. 11 golpe that toppled the Allende government. The attempt by the rebellious Buin tank regiment was quashed by Gen. Carlos Prats, commander of the Chilean army at the time. Prats was loyal to the constitution and Allende and he paid the price.

After the golpe, Prats was immediately flown into exile in Buenos Aires. A year or so later, Prats and his wife Sofia were blown up (bomb attached to bottom of his car) by Pinochet's DINA (including Michael Vernon Townley, accused in the assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington.)

Couple of anecdotes that made the rounds in Santiago after the Tanquetazo:

One of the regiment's tanks was short of gasoline, so it pulled into a station. The tank commander in his turret ordered a humble station attendant to refuel the tank. The attendant refused, saying, "Who is going to pay for it?" The tank commander said "this," and pulled out his .45 caliber pistol. The tank got the gasoline.

On the way to attack La Moneda, the tanks got caught up in the Santiago morning rush hour. So the tanks would obey the traffic signals, stopping at red lights, going to war on green. Motorists were astounded to see a heavy tank roaring next to their car at the intersections.