British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India on Wednesday, describing the episode as deeply shameful while stopping short of a public apology.
The fluid relation between Pinochet’s regime in Chile and the UK following Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 is not nothing new, however declassified British documents of the time to which BBC World had access, reveal the intensity of those links in defence and political issues, including in March/April 1982 when the Argentine military invasion of the Falkland Islands.