There is no doubt that outrageous acts of atrocities were committed during the military coup of September 11, 1973, which effectively overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile, and replaced it with a military junta that would eventually be led by the then-newly appointed General Augusto Pinochet as commander-in-chief of the army. After the military took power, deposed President Salvador Allende was dead, and the military began rounding up people it considered dissidents, leftists, or supporters of Allende. People were isolated in camps, systematically tortured and murdered under Pinochet and his military dictatorship. In an effort to make genocide a crime, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG) established a working definition of the word "genocide." According to Article 2, genocide is defined as: any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a. Kill group members;b. Cause serious bodily harm to members of the group;c. Deliberately imposing living conditions on the group intended to provoke its physical description in whole or in part; d. Impose measures intended to prevent births within the group;e. Forced transfer of children from the group to another group. In the context of the 1973 military coup in Chile, it is clear that the junta, led by Pinochet, arrested people without good cause, detaining them for prolonged periods, and subjecting them to poor physical conditions, to strong psychological pressure in order to eliminate any potential opposition. It is therefore quite clear that the Junta intends...... middle of paper ......bal Justice. New York: Zed Books in association with the Transnational Institute. Byers, Michael. 2000. “The Law and Politics of the Pinochet Affair.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 10: 415-441. Chavkin, Samuel. 1982. The Murder of Chile: Eyewitness Accounts of the Coup, Terror, and Resistance Today. New York: Everest House Publishers. Dorfman, Ariel. 2002. Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Endless Trial of General Augusto Pinochet. New York: Seven Stories Press. Rector, John Lawrence. 2003. The History of Chile. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Tedeschi, Sara K., Theodore M. Brown, and Elizabeth Fee. 2003. “Salvador Allende, Doctor, Socialist, Populist and President.” American Journal of Public Health 93 (12).Totten, Samuel and William S. Parsons. 2013. Centuries of genocide: essays and eyewitness accounts. New York: Routledge.