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more news and analysis is always our website data. com or you can also find this and social media. perhaps there is no names. i'm quite richardson in berlin. many thanks for watching the . you'll see about the video that goes in the media. amiga will go, i've got to be done by get, i will stop into that and i'll give you the order. would you be able to order it up? joe made any a dog coloring key, more people than eval on the world wide in search of a dummy ever use man to dictate t method. the only like godaddy, how do you find out about on the story? and so my friends 50 is one at why the overall has vasquez has been searching for his father, an older brother. chevy mo, most still have some hope that my brother is alive,
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leaving can during the pin a shea dictate to ship an unknown 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 reason i want to know when my father was killed on what day where he's remains, then i can finally say good bye. fine. who's been resident in germany 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?
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the tragedy his loan of a shot to the family plans father and eldest brother were arrested on october, the 13th, 19731 months off to the qu. liked by general uncle stokes, you know she, since then this be no trace of the 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, the family want to celebrate his return. in 1975, he was permitted to leave the gemini. busy he at least managed to escape in
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a chaise military dictate to share men cause to get on. i get into the cell 6. very thank the the dorian bill. it is the same with your the adviser. it's very emotional to be here to see my relatives, my nephews. they're all part of the family. for years, we've all suffered from these tragedy on the light and i, the in the places ships are going to use it in the area. easy, 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 flu shot, reese, s ones. oh this nephew, so in, in the day,
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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 pine, 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 ports would be in that way. all the family members then 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 cross, 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 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. it didn't. 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, and assessing the abuse of children. but he managed to flee to germany and just
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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 died. well, mister hub, as paul schafer 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 to 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 johnny will also take him to colonia digna died itself louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the to lay in criminal police to properly investigate the gem. in fact, he could be an interesting source for one they've met before,
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but they've never had an in depth conversation. luis is a well known figure in july. he was once one of president, salvador, i and they both the gods. on the day of the penis shake to the day and they died. he was with him. ready most of the present the, you know, you know, if you're not mine, okay, i will know the president came and shook hands with each of us and said, i gras yes. company at our 4th 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 coughs gifted close the door and we heard the mon, well, i heard 2 or 3 shots funeral, a porter. it is
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a seem to join over. so not seem to those or 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 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. medici in the thoughts of my plans 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. deano had a station in front of you and had a base and colonial dig me that in the near. 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 is there like got a bunch of we don't know where they were taken. that's
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a different then for us that go use the most common theory is that they were buried in colonial dignity that are a lot very happy. i mean, nancy is it gets even, it doesn't allow very novices to to do that. hon is renee that the former police investigator agrees his theory is plausible. know which i doubt if you me convicted this week because if they meet this i think 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 lemonade to the presidential palace in santiago de chilly. gabriela bowditch, representing a left wing alliance, has been in office since march 2022 of the many families of chiles
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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 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. for the that, i mean a, that's the dental we have. i mean, the federal has family album is incomplete. in the last 50 years, luis has had no more photos of his grandfather, miguel ninety's father. he's about to to add to it is fun. remember the night passed on right now? like i said, when of the, i'm going to 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 in yet always came from a lawyer. and you know, and bad total has seen him 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 sycamore. i go to that whenever i see a photo, it reminds me that he's gone to pursue, but i feel the pain all over again. but it's not just for me, it's my whole family, most of them because we don't know where here's where you left. they were the, it's a pain we've card with his old allies. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings in effect too deeply. and then i thought it was as the motor plan will be heading south, luis will join him in
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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. hahn is nervous about visiting the place where his father and brother were probably tortured his bachelor. 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 call in a few seconds. it might go there and get 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 great, that piece and be at least 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,
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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 to sign in at 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. he will be there if 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 like a who emigrated to gemini, soon after his release that died relatively young. he never spoke about prison, but one knew it had been a terrible experience. 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 thank you. 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, posted this high school. what executed shortly after finish chase, bloody to 8 of the students were arrested and never seen again. the former classmates and teachers are on 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 comfort. 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. yeah, you heard of getting broken, the barnes fun. taney is the performs a quite the traditional to land 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 german preach 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 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
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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 told to the come, we will complete the enslaved us with the inspection come yvonne to the dark as clocked over the years that has 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 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. does i do is i'm
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a font just inch done. now of friendship has developed via your life and we've recognized their suffering and they've recognized ours, lightest, football. we're all victims like as long as i could 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. that's what they screamed at us. but that's over now and 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 an ocean and then comes father was a close confidant of polly schaffer could. snell and comp was one of the west of colonia digna dad's pub detritus. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and has
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since died on a is 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 kind of what of them are on the 1973, the seller was made available to dina, and the 2 lay in stage 2, the military people spared in a new tab 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 us to have the forms in the city or to the 4th floor. it isn't as the children of course chanel and come on out and has 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,
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if it were my family, my husband, my child and confirm, 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 jem and so new hospital here they were routine the beacon with bamboo, roads 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 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 after going isn't, isn't house. many of the victims still live here. they don't dad,
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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. that never happened. the last known location of miguel and his battle was the police station in cut deal kaloni, a digna dad was close by. one is sure that's where his relative swim. 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 did time and to get that ok, the you never give them hope that you'll find out some things we've been looking
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for so long and i've never had an unsettled cause 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 but or 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 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 people who might still have important information on presence. or, you know, renew. patricio, who is guiding. the group was taken away from his mother and forcibly adopted by
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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 certain 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 it on the box, right? as i've said before, the truth is liberating to profit helps. it would reassure us better. we will be out this woman from nearby peril complete the reject, any co operation with the former calling on us. that's the most important thing. we don't want to shed memorial with the settlers or gauge. they're the ones who caused the suffering. not just to my family, but to all the other 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
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share anything with them where 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. fun is small, 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're implementing soon. i'm looking for my father and my brother. so here's my, i'm just looking for information wanting to adjust the system does with that, that's not my concern is my lease wants to get out of this set up as quickly as possible. 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 happen here.
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the day in the former colonial dig me 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 definitely already being credited back in the capital santiago did. surely, this weekend marks the anniversary of pena 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 not prepared to forget the past and move on. and the police response is a reminder dump times
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the data. the demonstration is passed off piece for me. this advice i verify 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 the like 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 it's a visa, 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 1460 disappeared. people from the pen of shay era. but there are believe to be many,
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many more presidents gabrielle glitch is attending the memorial service. fun would have liked to don's for all of july 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 so we can say it's all over and dealt with. 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 truths as before. i leave off highs is empty when we usually right in front of the policy come, retains a keen 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
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the only one i'm super lucky music under the swastika thoughts may 25th on dw, the a living in safety and freedom. exploring your identity will reconnect saying with family history. what does german citizenship mean? so people with different backgrounds today. the main part of the thing in germany, even though i can have a say stuff with inside sales force and possible low, was about the passport. it was also about having to choose an identity and it felt like a, uh, something positive had come out. so it was so terrible history.