Jonathan Calvert
January 2002
Look who's coming to the rescue of Augusto
The day of reckoning beckons for the frail old man who is occasionally glimpsed walking gingerly around his garden on the millionaire Surrey estate. Neighbours know him as the General. The world knows him as Augusto Pinochet: slayer and torturer of thousands.On Yemen's death row
They face a violent death. Those found guilty of terrorism in the Yemen are blind-folded with hands tied behind their back, made to kneel on the ground and then killed by a single pistol shot to the back of the neck. It would a barbaric end to the lives of five young men from ordinary homes in provincial British cities.