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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  May 14, 2024 2:15pm-2:46pm CEST

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stay tuned, coming up after a short break are documentary series, close up, takes us to, to lay on the search for those disappeared under the piano dictatorship. of course, there is more news on our website and soon as you can find that at the w dot com, thanks so much for watching the stage burst into our is whenever they feel like you don't limit 1000 kind of for design and fashion. and most of the pieces in the sky is many on including the also how do they do it? the secret lives of the dogs may 22nd on d. w 50
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is one. eduardo rojas vasquez, who's been searching for his father, an older brother chevy mo, most still have some hope that my brother is alive, leaving ken during the pin a shade dictate to ship an unknown number of july ends with 2 chips unloaded in the notorious colonial digney dad club believes it was bad that his father met his desk . the reason why once 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 chile hoping to find out what some for oh, what happened to his father and brother the
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the sun, eduardo has vasquez arrives at santiago did too late at port where his family are waiting for him. the tragedy has long overshadow. the family plans father and eldest brother what were rested on october. the 13th 19731 months off to the qu, like by general august. okay, no, she since then this be no trace of 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 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,
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he at least managed to escape pena chaise military dictate to show men cause to get on high get into the cell 6 very thank the the 1000000 bill is the same, which are the adviser. it's very emotional to be here to see my relatives, my nephews. they're all part of the family. i forget, we've all suffered from these tragedy on the light and i in the places ships are going to use it in the area is the 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 others, the disappearance of miguel and headed back to brought the family closer together. but they need closure. reese,
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s ones oh this nephew. so in the day, if 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 to me when 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 sonya in gemini pon, is performing a traditional to land a quick but this isn't a joyous occasion. the
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42 demonstrations have gathered in front of a residential building in the city of clifford. the demanding of system finds the question to use where on chalets disappeared. they knew that for 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 plans father and older brother has been missing since the arrest in october, 1973 on up, you know, likelihood they would tote should and did 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 past, the demonstration is taking place outside the home of hot tub. a foam indeed of
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colonial dick need 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 and i come but as a to a friend 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, how my soul weeps every day here. brightened getting dark to that hot summit 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. as you guys can, 2011 hops was sentence to 5 years in prison in chile, for aging,
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and investing the abuse of children. but he managed to flee to germany and to slave tia ever since no actually left to live. in apartment hops was one of the closest confidence of power shaffer, the founder of colonial digney. that will help mister hub as policy. if us right hand man, you have key information that could help solve the crimes of colonial digney done. yeah. do you have tormented the survivors and relatives of the victims long enough and you speak up at last and break your silence? hope 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 journey will also take him to colonial digna doubt itself. louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the to lay in criminal
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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 july. he was once one of president salvador in days, 40 gods on the day of the penis shake to the day and they died. he was with him the 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 an airport video or most of the young people, then we went outside with our hands behind our heads, as we've been ordered at the end, pick it up, and suddenly the president was at the end of the line and meet him. he went into the salon with his collection of coffee, gifted close the door, and we heard in the mon, well,
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i heard 2 or 3 shots funeral porter. it is a simple your little bit. so now to see if those are going to be back. but before that i you, i heard the words, i you and they will not surrender, god dammit. then i heard the shots, you're sort of give it where do you? that's how i remember it, me call it or you? my colleague got a though, went to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself at e. c. 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 get into momento navina. dina had a station and thought about you and had a face and colonial dignity that so where else would they have been taken out on a piece or $200.00 already. a lot of people in the part of prison were picked up
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there like got a bunch of and we don't know where they were taken. that's a different brand for a psycho use. the most common theory is that they were buried in colonial dignity that are a lot very happy to me, nancy, if it gets even at the very end of it and see she took, the hon is relieved that the former police investigator agrees his theory is plausible know which i doubt if you me convicted 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 what day, where he's remains rest, so that i can finally say good bind c. lemonade to the presidential palace in santiago de chilly. gabriela bowditch, representing a left wing alliance,
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has been in office since march 2022 of the many families of chillies disappeared. have high hopes in him with the chillen states yet to really can from the tumor of its past in front of the palace, posters 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 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 his bath tow to add to it is fun. remember the night passed on?
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i gotta, like i said to are with 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 out and 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 pen to shake who this was tantamount to a death sentence. louise only read. he looks at the family album level in the old. i've lived with his pain, all my life sick. 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 to me, my whole family, most of them because we don't know where he is, what you, that they will be. it's a pain leave card with us all our lives. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings in effect too deeply. i'm not the only one. as
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the motor plan will be heading south, luis will join him in a few days time together as they 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 have 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 if it's possible that my brother is there in the gym and calling you cuz i guess it might go there and get those people. they brain washed people so that they no longer knew who they were getting back to be that maybe he's still in there somewhere. we don't know where that great piece it'd be at least the next morning. one is in the not as 300 kilometers away. his brothers sat here who's
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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 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 the signing the gates and there was always a b q outside, but i knew i would always be trembling. i was so scared that he's grinding game or be there. i didn't know if i get the house again. once i was in my email from me that he was always with megan. me a hug. he might be on speak like a hell emigrated to gemini, soon after his release that died relatively young. he never spoke about prison, but why? i knew it had been a terrible experience. i neat gift finding
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a man who's been in prison the we've seen told me they would be sending you because they were forced to drink. you're in an audience. so think, i think the things i haven't known any of that until he tells me is that is 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 t n. o. selina lane, 6 former p posts of this highschool were executed shortly off to finish chaise, bloody to 8 of the students were arrested and never seen again. that former classmates and teachers are on veiling a plaque. and then memory fun
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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 com. so you guys close if it breaks and i feel that it's important. they'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 the user to get broken. the barnes fun taney is the performs a quite the traditional to land on switch 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 gym and preacher power schafer. it was a pseudo religious sect. the colony was heavily daunted. it was in living how so many who left the and for the members of 2 lays 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 cloth bedroom window . apart from a small clique of lead is most of the $300.00 or so residents of colonial digney
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that were essentially slaves. children was separated from the parents and put to work every day. among them was host shaft, click the home kind to 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 come. we will complete the enslaved it does with inspection come. yvonne to the dark as clocked over the years that have been plans to erect memorials to the residents who suffered the colonial digney that the 2 lands who were tortured and did that. but to date, nothing has happened. neither the gym and no 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
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welcomed by husband demand a former resident of colonial technique that it does i do, is i the font just inch done now of friendship has developed via your life and we've recognized their suffering and they recognized ours lightest well, we're all victims because of the, as i called 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 had blood on our hands on phones. that's what they screamed at us, but that's over now. i'm just like we embrace the one another home once a month. 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 polish schafer. could chanel encompass one of the west of
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colonia digna dad's pub detritus. 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 a in secret police, dina, as a torture chamber before and i was born the, these are kayla avoided them. around the 1973, the seller was made available to dina and the 2 laying stage to the military spirit in the new town on texas. it pains us to this day that this happened here on our grounds and it was on the people were brought here and tortured forms in the 2nd or 3rd or 4th at warden's. and as the children of clinch, snelling comes on and has siblings had privileges they were allowed to study, for example. but unlike many former, called on us, on national and comp recognizes the suffering of the relatives of the 2 land
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disappeared in this line. this, i always say if it were my family, my husband, my child in kingston, i would probably dedicate my whole life to finding out what happened is which most of us persevered as so many of the children who lived in colonial digney that the place they dreaded most was the noise concord house, jem, and so new hospital here they were routine lead beacons 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 that were girls too old off and 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 system? and it said it was just despicable calls um lets here. i'll click on this and isn't
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how many of the victims still live here? they don't dare leave they to have no place that commemorates the suffering or off. did they ever rest? when's father and brother? i was supposed to appear in coats here in paris, but that never happened. the last name location of miguel and his battle was the police station in cut deal. colonia digna. dad was close by. one is sure that's where his relative swim. uh did. he plans to go to that tomorrow. the next morning is raining heavily on 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 them hope that you'll find out some
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things we've been looking for so long and i've never had an answer because anymore, hopefully we'll finally get one today. i wouldn't be able to go one other put the i've been hit so many times and it's always the same. it all a joke. you're doing, nothing happens and we leave empty handed. is it for the most phenomenal going novel? i hope this time we'll get some answers to all of our questions the, some of them before they, i don't know because i along with the relatives of the disappeared that going into the potato seller. much to the disappointment they're going to content. so 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 he doesn't wanna
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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 memory. i think this really is never certainly to be. it would be good to have the support of the people who still live here, including the older ones who is still here as if you don't want 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 reject any co operation with the former calling on us . the name was the phone. 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 other relatives of the victims too. of course,
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we don't want to share 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 a struggle 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 a hobby. what if i could, i would talk to all of you. we should communicate. yeah. cuz 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 wanting to adjust the system does with that, that's not my concern. is my luis wants to get out of this set up as quickly as possible once again the atmosphere and here is terrible. i need to get out of here. this place has
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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's 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 a points where they can. so the coverage. that's the already being credited. back in the capital, santiago did chile this weekend monks the anniversary of pen a chaise to 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
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not prepared to forget the past and move on. and the police response is a reminder dump times. the nature of the demonstration is passed off a piece for me. this advice have verified the guessing he about me. he got me fussing water cannons that we used yesterday. i didn't understand that i was taking so that we not here to be violent . we just want to remind people of what happened here. yeah. because of you know, through these we want people to know, especially the younger generation who don't necessarily have enough information. you know, do you pretty much and then they come in. yeah, that's the same. but 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
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1460 disappeared people from the tennessee era. but there are believe to be many, many more presidents gabrielle voltage 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. is it so we can say it's all over and dealt with feet, but this is a new beginning when we can finally look full, we couldn't. and with the support of our president, with this to if i believe we will manage to establish the truth as before, i leave off high. so as far as when we usually right in front of the policy, come, retains a king to talk to one and take his picture. i don't
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