Dario Paya, Chilean MP: We're a very new and young party. I'm 33. I was nine the day the military took over.

Most of our members were part of the people that worked during the time that General Pinochet transformed our economy into what it is today: an example world wide. And we feel it was a very good government which of course faced a very difficult situation with organised violence and terrorism from the left.

It's a fact that excesses and human right violations were committed in the effort to get rid of terrorism, that is a fact, we understand it, we acknowledge it, and that's why we don't oppose when those people responsible for those excesses and violations are taken to court.

We believe that's the way it should be, Chilean courts should deal with it. There's no justification for a human rights violation ever.

But it should be demanded from political leaders world wide and from people who have opinions about this to have serious standards.

Yes, it is a fact that nearly 3,000 people, both political and military, died because of political violence in the effort by Chileans to get rid of Marxism and return to democracy.

Now what's the standard by which we're going to be judged when we see the US and Britain celebrate 100,000 Iraqis killed to re-establish monarchy in Kuwait? Or was it because of the oil? What was it? What's the standard by which our decision, what Chileans had to do to get rid of Marxism, is going to be judged?

If we're ready to apply that standard to every government that's fine. But what we're witnessing here is an effort by the left to cover up their own responsibilities and the only reason why the left's record in Chile is different from everywhere else that they've ruled, the reason is that here they did not rule, they didn't have the time fortunately to execute the atrocities that they did everywhere else on earth.