<P> Meanwhile, left - wing Christian Democrats like Radomiro Tomic were jailed or forced into exile . The Catholic Church, which at first expressed its gratitude to the armed forces for saving the country from the horrors of a "Marxist dictatorship" became, under the leadership of Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, the most outspoken critic of the regime's social and economic policies . </P> <P> The military rule was characterized by systematic suppression of all political dissidence . Scholars later described this as a "politicide" (or "political genocide"). Steve J. Stern spoke of a politicide to describe "a systematic project to destroy an entire way of doing and understanding politics and governance ." </P> <P> The worst violence occurred within the first three months of the coup, with the number of suspected leftists killed or "disappeared" (desaparecidos) reaching several thousand . In the days immediately following the coup, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs informed Henry Kissinger that the National Stadium was being used to hold 5,000 prisoners, and as late as 1975, the CIA was still reporting that up to 3,811 were still imprisoned there . Between the day of the coup and November 1973, as many as 40,000 political prisoners were held there . 1,850 of them were killed, another 1,300 are missing since then . Some of the most famous cases of desaparecidos are Charles Horman, a U.S. citizen who was killed during the coup itself, Chilean songwriter Víctor Jara, and the October 1973 Caravan of Death (Caravana de la Muerte) where at least 70 persons were killed . Among the most infamous methods of murder involved Pinochet's henchmen dropping pregnant women out of aeroplanes . He believed this was a way of avenging soldiers killed by Allende's supporters . He was quoted to have said "If you kill the bitch, you kill off the offspring ." Other instances of systematic murder include Operation Colombo and Operation Condor . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> He shut down parliament, suffocated political life, banned trade unions, and made Chile his sultanate . His government disappeared 3,200 opponents, arrested 30,000 (torturing thousands of them)... Pinochet's name will forever be linked to the Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and the institutionalized torture that took place in the Villa Grimaldi complex ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, National Review </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Which rights were denied in poland and chile during 1980