COMBINATION IMAGE OF CHILEAN POLICEMAN STANDS GUARD DURING SOCCER GAME AND AFTER MILITARY COUP, 2003-09-09 (photo)

A Chilean policeman patrols the National Stadium prior to a World Cup qualifying match between Peru and Chile on September 9, 2003 (R), almost 30 years after the same stadium was turned into a detention center for thousands of people taken in for questioning following the September 11, 1973 coup by General Augusto Pinochet (L). September 11 will mark the 30th anniversary of the military coup led by Pinochet, which toppled the government of President Salvador Allende and ushered in 17 years of miltary rule. For many, the day is painful reminder of 17 years of repression and human rights abuses in which more than 3,000 died under Pinochet's military government. But for others, September 11 is the day the general saved Chile from Marxism. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (R) and FILE MB/GN