Amazon pulls Chile dictatorship 'death flights' T-shirts after backlash

• Leftwing opponents were dropped from helicopters into sea
• Range of shirts with mocking allusions to practice were on sale

Amazon has come under fire for selling T-shirts glorifying the “death flights” of Chile’s military dictatorship in which leftwing opponents of the regime were dropped from helicopters in an attempt to hide their murders.

More than 3,000 people were killed or forcibly disappeared during Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, and in 2001, the then president, Ricardo Lagos, revealed that at least 120 of them were later thrown to their deaths from helicopters into “Chile’s ocean, lakes and rivers”.

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