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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  May 14, 2024 11:15am-11:45am CEST

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it gets battlefield updates and to emphasize america's enduring support for ukraine as a defense itself against oppression. you're watching the w news on terry martin. thanks for being with us. the big burst into our is whenever they feel like you don't limit 1000 council design and fashion and most of the pieces in the sky. many on including the office. how do they do it? the secret lives of good thoughts may 22nd on d, w. 50 is one eduardo rojas vasquez has been searching for his father, an older brother,
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chevy mo, most still have some hope that my brother is alive, leaving kind of doing the finish a dictatorship and and the number of july ends with 2 should unloaded in the notorious colonial digney dad can believes it was bad that his father met his desk . the least i want to know when my father was killed on what day, where his remains. then i can finally say good bye. plan has been resident in gemini for decades. he's traveling to chill a hoping to find out once and for all. what happened 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?
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the tragedy has long overshadow. the family plans father and eldest brother, i were arrested on october, the 13th 19731 months off to the qu, like, by general of gustavo carino, she since then, there's been no trace of them. luis is this on this one, the missing brother? well, the weeds, the sign. one believes his family will only find peace of mind once that remains have been found. one hasn't been to bed, you know besetti alice. but before he's able to get some sleep, the family want to celebrate his return. in 1975, he was permitted to leave for gemini, he at least managed to escape and
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a chaise military dictate to share men cause to get on. i get it is now 6. very thank the the dorian bedroom. it is the same as your the info. it's very emotional to be here to see my relatives. my nephew's. they're all part of the family. we've all suffered from these tragedy on the light, and i mean, in the places ship side got see using it in the area is not fun. talks to his older 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. to see so in reality,
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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 3 week sonia in gemini pon is performing a traditional to land a quick but this isn't a joyous occasion. 2 the
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$42.00 demonstrations have gathered in front of a residential building in the city of clifford, the demanding of so. so find the question to use. well, janae's 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 shape during his 17 year room and never seen again. doctor white's cons father and older brother has been missing since the arrest in october 1973 for an up, you know like he had they would tortured and murdered on the grounds of the self proclaimed colony of dignity. a search founded by german immigrants. the chill and 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 dick need that. they want to see him brought to justice and to convinced
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that he knows where the magid relatives were buried. ready ready v as in can i just as we have suffering and how come, but there's a to a frown suffering that we still have hope that we can be queued that for you. but for that we need the truth. the thing i don't think anyone can imagine what it's like you to see how it feels. friedman, how my soul weeps every day here brightened, getting dark a bit hot summit hop maintains his silence, refusing to talk to the protest as venture out of his head. don't things i needed to polish as a guide hoffman. as you guys can, 2011 hops was sentence to 5 years in prison in chile, for aging and investing the abuse of children. but he managed to flee to germany
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and just leave tia ever since. no actually left to live in apartment top was one of the closest confidence of power schafer, the founder of colonial digney. dad was ha, mr. holmes. as paul schafer right hand man, you have key information that could help solve the crimes of colonial digney done. and yet you have tormented the survivors and relatives of the victims long enough and you speak up at last and rank. your silence helps silence strength. and this one's resolve to travel to chile and find out what he can about the fate of his father and brother. his john, he will also take him to colonial digna doubt itself. louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the 2 land criminal police to properly investigate the german sect. it could be an interesting source for one
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they've met before, but they've never had an in depth conversation. luis is a well known figure in july. he was once one is president, salvador. i and they is body guards. on the day of the pin a shake to the day and they died. he was with him most of the present to be know. you know, if you're the president came and shook hands with each of us and said gras yes, company at our for 30 or 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 breaker. he went into the salon with his collection of coffee, gifted close the door, and we heard in the mon, well, i heard 2 or 3 shots. similar porter is
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a see and george over so not seem to those or can any but but before that i you, i heard the words, i you and they will not surrender. god dammit, then i heard the shots, you sort of get there. where do you? that's how i remember it, me call it, are you my colleague? got he though, went to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself. medici in the matter, ones brother and father had been pushing prison in a small police station near the city of paris in the motor region. audience. ringback 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 the credential momento. now, venus. deena had a station in front of you and had a face and colonial dignity that in yeah, so where else would they have been taken to the a lot of people in the part of prison and were picked up? is there a bunch of we don't know where they were taken?
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that's a different plan for us that go use the most common theory is that they were buried in colonial dignity that are a lot already appear to be nancy. even at the very narratives the she took, the hon is really that the former police investigator agrees his theory is plausible. know which i doubt if you me can vittie this week because if it be presented, the important thing for me personally is to know the 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 to chile. gabrielle bowditch, representing a left wing alliance, has been in office since march 2022. the many families of chillies
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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 that loss is impossible for the that. i mean a, that's a done for the. yeah that's, 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 say, like i said, when of the i'm gonna say, i think i'm about 6 or 7 years old and this one,
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this is us outside our house or the house with the military and the kind of been yet always came some of the kind of a ok 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 the i've lived with his pain, all of my life. when i go to them, whenever i see a photo, it reminds me that he's gone to sleep, but i feel the pain all over again. does not just for me, my whole family, because we don't know where he is, where you, that there will be. it's a pain. we've card with his old allies. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings in effect too deeply. that the as the motor plan will be heading south, luis will join him in
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a few days time together as a plan to go to colonia digney dot, which has since been renamed via by the eta spanish villa bavaria pon is nervous about visiting the place where his father and brother were probably to change his back to would now has been 79. you know, people have a month. no, i still have some hope that my brother is alive. i have older siblings that were still alive. it's possible that my brother is there in the gym and call any so i guess it might go there and get those people. they brain washed people so that they no longer knew who they would get back to be there. maybe he's still in there somewhere. we don't know that the recipient is the next morning, one is in the not as 300 kilometers away. his brother sat here was imprisoned behind these walls. he'd been a member of president and today's popular unity policy. unlike his older brother
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and father, he was released 3 years later in prison. sasha, what to 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 tried to sign in at the gates and there was always a b q outside but and 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 for me that he was always with megan, and me a hug. he might be on speak lights. 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
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a man who'd been in prison, the width team told me they would be sending you because they were forced to drink your engine or do you so think? i think the things i haven't known any of that until he tells me is that it's the same. the safety is off to the ministry to it remains a harrowing memory to many to lands a memorial event in the city of tiana. selina bean sings former peoples of this highschool were executed shortly after pen a chaise, 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
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. this one is the guest savannah, talking to the relatives of others who were forcibly disappeared, provide some comforts. he doesn't understand why there is still no memorial on this site to the full met, colonia digney, dot com. so you guys close the parts and i feel that it's important. it'd be some way we could go 10 copies at the moment. and so i don't have any way where i can say good fine. and that's what we need to do here to get broken. the barnes on tediously performs a quite the traditional to land dumps which he uses to express his determination to perceive the truth. the
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colonial digney dad now called viet uh, was founded in 1961 by a gem and preach of power schafer. it was a pseudo religious sect. the colony was heavily granted. it was in living how so many who left the and for the members of today's opposition who would torture to of the 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 children was separated from the parents and put to work every day. among them was horsed chef click the home kind to come. we never had
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a minute to ourselves. everything was in the group, we never got a hug from my parents and could never talk to them to come, we will complete the enslaved us with inspection come yvonne to the dark as clocked over the years that has been plans to erect memorials to the residents who suffered kaloni a degree 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, a development that was welcomed by husband dom on a former resident of colonia digney. that is, i do is uninformed trust interest on now or friendship has developed v lights.
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we've recognized their suffering and they recognized ours, lightest. yup. we're all victims like as long as i can, long 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 had blood on our hands on phones because that's what they screamed to this. but that's over now i'm just like we embrace the one another, the home on some of in 2 days time. one will arrive here with his family to renew demands for a memorial ocean and comes father was a close confidant of polly schaffer could. snell in comp was one of the worst of colonial digna dads perpetrators. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison until since died. on a it's on her way to the so called potato seller. it was used by the to lay in
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secret police dina, as a torture chamber before and i was born the, these are kind of what of them around the 1973. the seller was made available to dina and the to a, in stage 2, the military people stared in a new tab 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 test. siblings had privileges, they were allowed to study for example. but unlike many former, called on us, on 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 in kingston,
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i would probably dedicate my whole life to finding out what happened position list of us plus here it is. so many of the children who lived in colonial digney that the place they dreaded most was the noise kind can house gem and so new hospital here, they were routinely beacon with bamboo roads, impala cables. they were given electric shocks to the genitals practices. that po schafer found sexually arousing funds new york. it wasn't just boys supplements. 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. i'll click on isn't, isn't how many of the victims still live here? they don't dare leave they to have no place. that commemorates the suffering
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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 colonial digna dad was close by. one is sure, that's where he's relatives when the he plans to go to that tomorrow. the next morning is raining heavily klein and his nephew, luis, have to hurry the duck 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 them 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 be able to go one other what i've
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been has so many times. yep. and it's always the same, but all you're doing, nothing happens. and we leave empty handed. is it for the most? 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 disappeared that going into the potato seller much to the disappointment that going to content. so the central question where all the loved ones, none of the older generation, you live to you, 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
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frustrated. right. i think this really is never certain to be able to be good to have the support of the people who still live here, including the older ones who were still here as if you don't want it on the box, right? as i've said before, the truth is liberating. profit helps. it would reassure us better. we hope that was out. but this woman from nearby power completely rejects any co operation with the former calling on us. the name was born. we don't want to shed memorial with the settlers or gauges. they're the ones who cause the suffering, not just to my family, but to all the, all the relatives of the victims too. of course we don't want to shed memorial didn't they cost us so much suffering. they killed people and we don't want to share anything with the way he is part of the struggling and it remains the
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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 a hobby. what if i could i would talk to all of you. we should communicate. yeah. that's what we are in the community. so i'm just i'm looking for my father and my brother. so here's my, i'm just looking for information. what the justice system does with it. that's not my concern is mike luis 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.
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the day in the former colonial digney that ends in disappointment for one but he's on the touch. he's still believes he can find out more. yes, of every fear. if i think it would be possible to learn something here. there are people who have information the. we have to get to 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, 2 at 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 response is a reminder dump times. the
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nature of the demonstration has passed off a piece for me. this a bunch. i verified the guessing he about me. he kept me fucking water cannons that we used yesterday. i didn't understand that. i. we not see it to be violent. we just want to remind people of what happened here. yeah, we've got to be like these. we want people to know, especially the younger generation who don't necessarily have enough information. do you know, do you feel much and then they come in? yeah, that's the reason why they should know what happened in sheila, in 1973. even 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 voltage is attending the memorial service.
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fun would have liked to dump its own of cha on this high profile stage today, but it wasn't to be he has high hopes in the left wing leader. in any case that's targeted is used, so we don't say it's so low or in deal with it, but this is a new beginning, but then we can finally look forward to group couldn't. and with the support of our president, with this to 5, believe we will manage to establish the truth as before i leave off high. so i'd find a simple way you'll see right in front of the policy come, retains a keen to talk to one and take his picture down says he's quite tough for one last time. on this journey, he found no new traces of his father and process, but one is not giving the
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