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the learning center which see the world winning offer is available language learning. german has never been sent to. the 50 is one eduardo rojas vasquez has been searching for his father, an older brother, chevy mo, most still have some hope that my brother is alive, leaving kinda doing the pena shay dictatorship and on the number of july ends. but 2 should unloaded in the notorious colonia digney. dad can believes it was bad that his father met his desk. the reason i want to know when my father was killed on what day where his remains, then i can finally say good bye. fine has been
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resident in gemini for decades. he's traveling to chill a hoping to find out once and for all what happens to his father and brother, the son eduardo, has vasquez arrives at santiago? did you meet at port where his family are waiting for him? the tragedy has known as a shot to the family plans father and eldest brother, i were arrested on october, the 13th 19731 months off to the qu, liked by general uncle stokely. no, she since then there's been no trace of them. luis is this on this one, the missing brother? the well, the weights,
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the sign quan believes his family will only find peace of mind. once that remains have been found. one hasn't been to bed, you know bessetti alice. but before he's able to get some sleep and the family want to celebrate his return. in 1975, he was permitted to leave the gemini, he at least managed to escape, punish chaise military dictate to share men cause to get a regular that is that 16 very or the story in the bill. it is the same with your the info, so it's very emotional to be here to see my relatives, my nephews. they're all part of the family. we've all suffered from these tragedy
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on the light. and i the, in the place here shift size of the area in the area is not fun. talks to his oldest siblings via video cold. they live in the south of chile. i can't be that tonight with the of this the disappearance of miguel and headed back to brought the family closer together. but they need closure. reese, s ones oh this nephew. so in reality, i want to know what my father is, so i can give him a proper burial. my mother died without knowing what her husband was by you. so what my grandmother died without knowing why my grandpa was. i'd like to bury him before i die, to visit his grave. but we know nothing 50 years and we know nothing. and then when it is, all i want is to know the
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3 week sonya in gemini pon, is performing a traditional to land a quick but this isn't a joyous occasion. 2 the $42.00 demonstrations have gathered in front of a residential building in the city of clifford, the demanding of so. so finds the question to use where she lays disappeared. they knew that thoughts with you with that where all the family members been as the sounds of people who were abducted by the henchmen of dictate to august the penal shades during his 17 year room and never seen again. doctor white's
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cons father and older brother has been missing since the arrest in october, 1973 for an up, you know, like he had they would taught should. and much on the grounds of the self proclaimed colony of dignity. a search founded by german immigrants, the chillen secret police operated a torch is sent to the port this process, the demonstration is taking place outside the home of hot tub. a foam indeed of colonial digney that they want to see him brought to justice. and to convinced that he knows where the magid relatives were buried. ready v as in can i just as we have suffering them, how come but there's a to a frown, suffering the, the we still have heard how you but we can be cute that for you. but for that we need the truth. the thing i don't think anyone can imagine what it's like to see how it feels. friedman, how my soul weeps every day here brighten,
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getting back as that hot mate hump maintains his silence, refusing to talk to the protest as venture out of his home and all things i needed to polish as a guide hoffman. i see you guys in 2011 hoppe was sentence to 5 years in prison in chile, for aging, and the best thing the abuse of children. but he managed to flee to germany and just leave tia ever since no actually left to live. in apartment top was one of the closest confidence of polly schafer, the found of colonial digney that mister hub as policy. if us right hand man, you have key information that could help solve the crimes of colonial digney done. and you know, do you have tormented the survivors and relatives of the victims long enough and you speak up at last and break. your silence helps silence strength. and this one's
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resolve to travel to chile and find out what he can about the fate of his father. and brother his gen, he will also take him to colonial digna dad itself. louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the to lay in criminal police to properly investigate the gym insect. he could be an interesting source for one. they've met before, but they've never had an in depth conversation. luis is a well known figure in chalet. he was once one is president salvador. i and these body guards on the day of the penis shaky to the day i and they died. he was with him most of the present to be know. you know, if you're not mine okay,
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i will know the president came and shook hands with each of us and said gras yes, company at off. what did you the most of the young people then we went outside with our hands behind our heads as we've been ordered to see and pick it up. and suddenly the president was at the end of the line and meet the southern breaker. he went into the salon with his collection of coughs gifted close the door, and we heard in the mon, well, i heard 2 or 3 shots similar porter, or is it seem to jordan over so not seem to those, or then it'd be fine. but before that i you, i heard the words, i you and they will not surrender, god dammit. then i heard the shots. you still get there? where do you? that's how i remember it. me call it or you my colleague got he though, went to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself. medici in the funds, brother and father had been pushing prison in a small police station near the city of paris in the motor region. audience,
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luis enmity, cuz sega has conducted extensive investigations into colonial digney dad, as well as the 2 land secret police do not know me to get answered momento navina. dina had a station and thought about you and had a face and colonial digney that, i mean. yeah. so where else would they have been taken to a lot of people in the part of prison and were picked up there like got a bunch of and we don't know where they were taken. that's a different plan for us that go use the most common theory is that they were buried in cologne. you think me that are a lot of very happy to me, nancy. even at that, instead of our very novices, she took it up when han is relieved that the former police investigator agrees his theory is plausible. know which i doubt if you make him v t. v has to be presented. the important thing for me personally is to know the
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truth, evicted me. i'm not doing this because i want to punish anyone. that's up to the court of justice. my, my priority is my family. i want to know when my father was killed on one day where his remains rest, so that i can finally say good bye. see lemonade to the presidential palace in santiago de chilly. gabrielle bowditch, representing a left wing alliance, has been in office since march 2022. many families of chiles disappeared. have high hopes in him with the chalet in states yet to really can from the tumor of its past in front of the palace post. as of individuals who were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship, a place of remembrance and morning for their relatives. for one family and many others coming to terms with the loss is impossible.
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for the that, i mean a, that's a dental we have, i mean the pseudo has family album is incomplete. in the last 50 years, luis has had no more photos of his grandfather miguel. and his father, he's about to, to add to it is fun. remember, the night passed on? i gotta, like i said, or when of the i'm going to say, i think i'm about 6 or 7 years old. and this one, this is us outside our house or the house with the military and the kind of in yet always came from of the the, you know, and bad total has seen here with baby luis was 28 when he was arrested. he was a member of the communist party off to the pin, a shake, who this was tantamount to a death sentence. louise only read. he looks at the family album level and
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the i've lived with his pain all my life more. i go to that whenever i see a photo, it reminds me that he's going to pursue, but i feel the pain all over again. does not just for me, my whole family, most of them, because we don't know where here's where you, that there will be. it's a pain leave card with his old allies. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings and effect you deeply. that the what the tomorrow one will be heading south, luis will join him in a few days time. let's start together as a plan to go to colonia digney dodge, which has since been renamed via by the eta spanish villa bavaria. pond is none of us about visiting the place where his father and brother were probably tortured his bachelor. would now have been 79 young people. you have a month? no, i still have some hope that my brother is alive. i have older siblings that were
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still alive if it's possible that my brother is there in the gym and calling you cuz i guess it may do that. and that those people, they brain washed people so that they no longer knew who they would be. that maybe he's still in there somewhere. we don't know that the piece and be at least the next morning. one is in the not as 300 kilometers away. his brothers sat here was imprisoned behind these walls. he'd been a member of president. and today's popular unity policy, unlike his older brother and father, he was released 3 years later in prison. sasha, what does the shoemaker kwan still a teenager at the time? brought 2 materials and food almost every day. it was it me on the for the and i had to sign in at the gates and there was always a b q outside,
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but i knew i would always be trembling. i was so scared that he's riding game or be there. i didn't know if i get the house again once i was in my email to me that he was always with megan, and me a hug. he might be on speak nights. so emigrated to gemini, soon after his release, that died relatively young. he never spoke about prison, but one knew which had been a terrible experience. neat gift finding a man who'd been in prison there with him, told me they would be sending you because they were forced to drink your engine audience. so think and get things i hadn't known any of that until he told me that if they're saying the
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safety is off to the ministry to it remains a harrowing memory to many, to lands a memorial event in the city of t and the b 6 form of he posts of this highschool were executed shortly off to finish chase, bloody to 8 of the students were arrested and never seen again that former classmates and teaches around veiling a plaque. and then memory fun is one of the guests savannah was talking to the relatives of others who were forcibly disappeared, provide some comforts. he doesn't understand why there is still no memorial on the site of the former colonia digney dot. it sounds like the guys across the boards and i feel that same portions. it'd be some way we could go done probably at the moment. and so i don't have any way where i can say good bye. and that's what we need to use her to get broken.
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the barnes fun taney, a see performs a quite the traditional to land which he uses to express his determination to perceive the truth. the colonial digney died now cold vita was founded in 1961 by a gem and preached power schafer. it was a pseudo religious sect. the colony was heavily vaunted. it was a living hell. so many who left the and for the members of 2 lays opposition who would torture to you?
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over a period of 35 years schafer raped dozens, possibly hundreds of boys in his house. when he was finally convicted, his victims unleashed years of pent up rage on his reinforced loss. bedroom window a pump from a small clique of lead is most of the 300 also residents of colonia digney that were essentially slaves. children was separated from the parents and put to work every day. among them was host chef click. the young kind is come. we never had a minute to ourselves. everything was in the group. we never got a hug from my parents and could never talk to the comb. we will complete the enslaved us with inspection come yvonne to the dark as clocked over the
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years that have been plans to erect memorials to the residents who suffered colonia digney. that the 2 lands who were tortured and did that, but to date, nothing has happened. neither the gem and know the 2 land government has ever followed through. for years these 2 groups of victims had no contact with one another. at some point they were organized meetings, bringing them together, the development that was welcomed by husband dom on a former resident of colonia dick need that cause i do is unimportant just interest on now a friendship has developed v lights on. we recognize their suffering and they recognized ours, lightest. yep. we're all victims. like as long as i could on before they saw us as cologne, us because we lived there for 40 years. they didn't believe we didn't know what was happening. so i kid we were perpetrators, we have blood on our hands on phones. that's what they screamed of this. but that's
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over now. i'm just like we embraced one another home on some of in 2 days time, one will arrive here with his family to renew demands for a memorial on national incomes. father was a close confidant of poly schafer. could snell and comp was one of the worst of colonial digna dads perpetrators. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison until since died on a is on her way to the so called potato seller. it was used by the 2 ne, in secret police dina, as a torture chamber. before anna was born, the peas or kayla avoided them. from 1973, the seller was made available to dina and the to a in stage 2,
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the military people spared in the new town on texas. it pains us to this day that this happened here on our grounds. and it was something that people were brought here and tortured to have a boss forms in the 2nd or 3rd or 4th a towards and as the children have questionnaire and come on a and has siblings had privileges, they were allowed to study for example. but unlike many former coated on us, national and camp recognizes the suffering of the relatives of the 2 land disappeared in his mind. if i always say, if it were my family, my husband, my child, and i would probably dedicate my whole life to finding out what happened is which most of us here. it is. so many of the children who lived in colonial digney that the place they dreaded most was the noise con, can house jem and so new hospital a t as a web routine. the base pairs with bamboo, roads,
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and power cables. they were given electric shocks to the genitals practices that po schafer found sexually arousing funds. no, you own it wasn't just boys supplement. there were girls too old. all i've talked to, one of the girls who was horribly tortured to hear bonds, and she told me her story. what happened here in this house? it's tomorrow. it's a, it was just despicable cause i was here after going isn't, isn't house. many of the victims still live here. they don't dare leave they to have no place that commemorates the suffering. are off to denver rest plans folder and browser was supposed to appear in coats here in paris . that never happened. the last name location of miguel and headed back to was the police station in cadell
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colonial digna dad was close by. one is sure. that's why he's relatives. when this he plans to go that tomorrow. the next morning is raining heavily klein and his nephew, luis, have to hurry the road that leads to the remote via by the eta, the former colonial digney. that is becoming increasingly dangerous. but that determines to get that ok. the you never give up. hope that you'll find out something we've been looking for so long and i've never had an answer because any more, hopefully we'll finally get one today. i won't do anything going on with the i've been hit so many times and it's always the same but or nothing happens and we leave empty handed. is it for the most or for no, no, no going. no. i hope this time we'll get some answers to all of our questions the, that some of them before the door was i alone was also relatives of the
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disappeared that going into the potato seller. much to the disappointment, the guide contents of the central question. where all the loved ones, none of the older generation who lived here. people who might still have important information on presence. or you know, renew. patricio, who is guiding. the grade was taken away from his mother, and forcibly adopted by colonial digney that as a child. but he's too young to know anything that can help one and his relatives that frustrated. right. i think this amazing is never seem to be able to be good to have the support of the people who still live here, including the older ones who was still here as if you don't want it on the box, right. as i've said before, the truth is liberating,
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the profit helps it would reassure us. we'll figure out what's out. so this woman from nearby power completely reject any co operation with the former coating on us. that's the most important thing. we don't want to shed memorial with the settlers. they're the ones who cost the suffering, not just to my family, but to all the other relatives of the victims too. of course, we don't want to share memorial didn't look they cost us so much suffering. they killed people and we don't want to share anything with them where he is part of a struggle and, and remains the struggle. we want to know when a relative saw have it done. wonderful media pod is which is for him here. one is more can city a tree, they need to make it a hobby. what if i could, i would talk to all of you. we should communicate. yeah,
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that's what we are in the community. so i'm just i'm looking for my father and my brother. so i'm just looking for information. so what the justice system does with it, that's not my concern, is my lease wants to get out of this set up as quickly as possible. now again, the atmosphere and here is terrible. i need to get out of here. this place has a horrible energy you can tell the bad things happened here. the day in the former colonial digney that ends in disappointment for one. but he's on the touch. he still believes he can find out more. yes of every year. i think it would be possible to learn something here. there are people who have information the we have to get to
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a point where they can sort of coverage. that's the already being credited. back in the capital, santiago did chile this weekend monks the anniversary of finish chase to the 10 o'clock the families of the disappeared set off on that traditional march. one minute later, the police file was attendance younger generations and not prepared to forget the past and move on. and the police responds as a reminder dump times. the nature of the demonstration is past off piece for me this advance. i've verified the guessing he about me. you've got me fussing water cannons that we used yesterday. i didn't understand that i was taking so that we
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not here to be violent. we just want to remind people of what happened here. yeah. because of, you know, it could be, we want people to know, especially the younger generation who don't necessarily have enough information. you know, do you feel much and then they come in? yeah, that's it to be soon. but they should know what happened in sheila, in 1973. stephen pond is surprised at how many other relatives he meets today. the state has officially recognized 1460 disappeared people from the tennessee era. but there are believe to be many, many more presidents. gabrielle glitch is attending the memorial service. fun would have liked to dance for food. have to lie on this high profile stage today, but it wasn't to be and he has high hopes and the left wing leader. in any case that's targeted is used to we don't say it's all over and dealt with. but this is
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a new beginning when we can finally look full, we couldn't. and with the support of our president, with those $25.00, believe we will manage to establish the truth as if i be 5. hazelwood farm is empty when we usually right in front of the policy, come, retains a king to talk to one and take his picture. i don't says he's quite tough for one last time on this journey. he's found no new traces of his father and bravo. but one is not giving the co africa. how do you get young people thinking about wasted in public spaces?
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