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CBSE - Civics - Democracy in the Contemporary World

Democracy in the Contemporary World

Short Answer Type

Why did the people of Chile want to over throw Pinochet’s rule? 

1. Pinochet’s government tortured and killed several of those who supported Allende and those who wanted democracy to be restored.

2. The leaders became arbitrary rulers and no one can question them.

3. The people of Chile had not forgotten their democratic tradition.

4. There was absence of political freedom

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