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

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ears like thousands of others under the dictatorship of coastal pina shirts. unable for lee. thank you so much for your company. the issues with a lot. see who the safety 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 kind of cheering the pen a shea dictatorship and, and the number of july ends with 2 should 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 he's remains, then i can finally say good bye. fine. who's been 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?
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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 there's been no trace of them. louise 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, he at least managed to escape in
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a chaise military dictate to sherman, cuz he could get on the high get it out. 376 very the the story in 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. i think we've all suffered from these tragedy on the light and i the, in the places shift size of the area 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 others, the disappearance of miguel and headed back to brought the family closer together. but they need close. yeah. at least as ones oh this nephew. so in reality, i want to know what my father is, so i can give him
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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 weeks on the a 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 well, janae's 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, like he had they would taught 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 point of 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 that he knows where the magid relatives
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were buried. ready v as in can i just as we have suffering and i come but as a to a friend 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 you to see how it feels to be my how my soul weights every day. buying, getting back that 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, said my 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 hops was one of the closest confidence of power schafer, the founder of colonial digney. dad 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. you have tormented the survivors and relatives of the victims long enough. you speak up at last and break. 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 johnny will also take him to colonia digna doubt itself. louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the to lay in criminal police to properly investigate the gym. 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 is 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. most of the present to be know. you know, if you're the president came and shook hands with each of us and said, i guess he has company at all for 30 or 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 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 similar porter, or is it seem to jordan over so not seem to those or going to be back. but before
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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 he though, went to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself. medici in the 2nd one's brother and father had been pushing prison in a small police station near the city of paris. in the motor region, audience, 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 base and colonial dig me 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? is there a bunch of and 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 of variability. nancy, they gave, they ran it that into now very and obviously she took, the hon is renee 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 gabriella bowditch, representing a left wing alliance, has been in office since march 2022. many families of chiles
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disappeared. have high hopes in him with the chalet in states yet to really can from the tumor if it's 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. the guy before the end of that, i mean a that's a done for the. yeah that's, i mean the federal has family album is incomplete. in the last 50 years, luis has had no more photos of his grandfather may go on to solve the heated bath tow to add to it is fun. remember the night passed on? i gotta, like i said, when it comes to 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 some of the thought, 8 ok the 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 after 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 this pain, all of my life sycamore. i go to that 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 and also it. and because we don't know where he is, what you, that they will be, it's a pain. we've card with us all our lives. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings and effect you deeply. that the the tomorrow plan will be heading south. luis will join him in
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a few days time. start together as a plan to go to colonia digney dodge, which has since been renamed via by the eta spanish villa bavaria. kline 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, so it was 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 would 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 minot as 300 kilometers away. his brother sat here was imprisoned behind these walls. he'd been a member of president and days popular unity policy. unlike his older brother and
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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 assigning the gates and there was always a b q outside but and 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 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 that with him told me they would be saying it 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 minute she to. it remains a harrowing memory to many to lands a memorial event in the city of chiana. selina, the 6 former p posts of this highschool were executed shortly off to finish chaise, bloody to 8 of the students for arrested and never seen again that former classmates and teaches around veiling a plaque. and then memory fun
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is one of the guests 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 the site of the former colonia digney dot com. so you guys close if it breaks and i feel that's important. if 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 fun taney is the, 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 daunted. it was a living hell. 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 clique of lead is most of the 300 also residents of colonial 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 of the can 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 them. to come, we will complete the enslaved us with the inspection come. yvonne to the 2 daughters clocked over the years that has been plans to erect memorials to the residents who suffered colonial digney that the 2 lands who were tortured and murdered 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, a development that was welcomed by husband dom on a former resident of colonia digney. that it is. i do is i have one trust interest
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on now of friendship has developed via your life and we've recognized their suffering and they've recognized ours, lightest. yep. we're all victims, like as long as i could not 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 one another home once a month. in 2 days time one, whenever i live here with his family to renew demands for a memorial anation and then comes, father was a close confidant of poly schafer. could snell and comp was one of the west of colonia digna dad's perpetrators. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison until
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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 color voided them from 1973. the seller was made available to dina, and the 2 lay in stage 2. the military people spared 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 to the 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 disappeared in this line. for me,
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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 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 con. can house jem? and so new hospital here they were routine the beacon with bamboo roads, impala cables. they were given electric shocks to the genitals practices that po schafer found sexually arousing funds to you and it wasn't just boys, so they were girls too old. oh, 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 said, it was just despicable calls. us here. after going into the house. many of the victims still live here. they don't dare leave. they to have no place
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that commemorates the suffering. after the arrest one's father and brother was supposed to appear in court here in paris. but that never happened. the last name location of miguel and headed back to was the police station income deal. colonia digna. dad was close by . one is sure that's where his relatives were murdered. he plans to go 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 it's becoming increasingly dangerous. but that determines to get that ok. the you never give up. 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. hopefully, we'll finally get one today. i won't be able to go one other put the i've been has so many times and it's always the same but to a joke 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. yeah . yeah. so i've got all that stuff done before the door because i along with the relatives of the 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 going. the great was taken away from his mother and forcibly adopted by
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colonial digney. died 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 certain to be on. it would be good to have the support of the people who still live here, including the older ones who were still here. as you see the device, right? as i've said before, the truth is liberating people. it helps, it would reassure us better. we hope that was out. ready but this woman from nearby power completely rejects any co operation with the former co known us. 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,
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and we don't want to share anything with them. where he is part of a struggle and it remains the struggle. we want to know when a relative saw i don't think i'm going to of the media pod is, which is for him here. one is more can city a tree. you 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. as soon as that i'm looking for my father and my brother is sweet. mike, i'm just looking for information. what the justice system does with it, that's not my concern, is my dear you least 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 as a horrible energy. you can tell the bad things happen here.
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the day in the former colonial digney that ends in disappointment for one. but he's on to touch. he still believes he can find out more. yes, of every fear the, 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, so that being covered, that's the already being credited. back in the capital, santiago did chile this weekend monks the anniversary of finish chase 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, the nature of the demonstration is passed off a piece for me. this advice have verified the guessing he about and he kept me fucking 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, we've got to be going through these. 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. even pond is surprised at how many of the relative c mates today. the state has officially recognized 1460 disappeared people from the finish a era. but there are believe to be many,
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many more presidents gabrielle voltage is attending the memorial service. fun would have liked to dump who would have to lay 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 it, but this is a new beginning, but then 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 upon is 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
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of his father and brother. but one is not giving the letter in charlotte the kind of energy, more people than ever on the world wide in search of a bed nearby, facile, jessica admitted god this passage. gosh, find out about rubinez story info. my friends, my name is the calls back. said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud. next, would it be nosy bay?
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