- William Beausire
William Robert Beausire (b. 1948) (also known as Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso [ [http://www.memoriaviva.com/Desaparecidos/D-B/bea-alo.htm GUILLERMO ROBERTO BEAUSIRE ALONSO] , "Memoria Viva" es icon ] - his official name in Chile) was a British stockbroker with dual British and Chilean nationality, abducted while in transit in Buenos Aires airport in November 1974, then taken to a torture centre in Chile and never seen since. He is among the list of people deemed disappeared under the Pinochet regime.
Biography
William Beausire was a British businessman who had a British father and a Chilean mother, and had dual nationality [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/the_pinochet_file/201678.stm Briton William Beausire 'returns' to haunt Pinochet] , "BBC News", 26 October 1998. Accessed online 30 June 2008.] . He and his sisters grew up in Chile. He was abducted in
Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport by plain clothed agents of the Argentine security forces onNovember 2 ,1974 , as he was on his way to France [ [http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR22/004/2002/en/dom-AMR220042002en.html Chile/UK: UK shirks its obligation to cooperate in human rights investigation] , "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE", 23 April 2002. Accessed online 30 June 2008.] . From there he was taken toChile to the offices of DINA, the Chilean secret police, in calle Jose Domingo Cañas, Santiago, where his mother and sister Diana were being interrogated. and subsequently to theVilla Grimaldi torture centre [ [http://www.btinternet.com/~donald.macdonald/chile1.htm Why Pinochet should not go free - A briefing] , 1 November 1998. Accessed online 30 June 2008.] .It is thought Beausire was a target for
DINA because his sister Mary-Anne did oppose the regime, and was living withAndrés Pascal Allende , a revolutionary and leading member of the MIR, now in the underground opposition to the military regime and nephew of deposed Popular Unity Chilean presidentSalvador Allende . It is thought Beausire was targeted in an attempt to find out where Mary-Anne and Andres Pascal were [ [http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/nov1998/int-n18.shtml An interview with Juana Francisca Beausire] , "World Socialist WebSite", 18 November 1998. Accessed online 30 June 2008.] .Witnesses say that Beausire was given electric shocks, had sticks forced into his rectum and was hung in the air. On
May 17 ,1975 he was taken to another DINA centre in Calle Irán, Santiago. The last anyone heard of William Beausire was on July 2nd of that year, when witnesses reported seeing DINA officers taking him from a building in Iran Street, Santiago, since when he was never seen again. His mother, Ines Beausire, and his sister Diana started a fruitless search for him. In June 1976 the UK Government referred the case to the United Nations [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/the_pinochet_file/201678.stm Briton William Beausire 'returns' to haunt Pinochet] , "BBC News", 26 October 1998. Accessed online 30 June 2008.] . Beausire was 26 years old when he was arrested. His mother died in 1995.Additional information
ee also
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Operation Condor
*Andrés Pascal Allende
*History of Chile References and external links
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