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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  May 15, 2024 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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definitely pull just the yellow if that's what you present on purple, purple. it's very special to georgia. choose your favorite color. 50 is one at why the overall has 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, but 2 should unload it 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
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resident in gemini for decades. he's traveling to chill a hoping to find out what some for oh, what happened to his father and brother, the son eduardo, has the vasquez arrives at santiago. did you meet at port where his family are waiting for him? the tragedy has long overshadowed the family plan, sponsor 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 system. luis, is this on this one of the missing brother? well, the weights, the signed. one believes his family will only find peace of mind once that remains
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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 and 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. i forget, we've all suffered from these tragedy on the light and i the in the places shift
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size of the area and the area busy, 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 as ones oh, this nephew. isn't somebody 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 no one it is. all i want is to know the
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3 weeks on the a in gemini pine is performing a traditional to land a quick but this isn't a joyous occasion. the 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 tuesdays 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
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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 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 were buried. ready 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 to be my how my soul weeps every day here. brightened . getting dark
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to that hot summit hop maintains his silence, refusing to talk to the protest as venture out of his home and all things i needed to publish 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 and to slave tia ever since no actually left to live. in apartment hops was one of the closest confidence of power schafer, the founder of colonial dignity. dad will help miss your home as policy. if the 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. you speak up at last and break your silence, help silence strength,
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and this one's resolve to travel to chile and find out what he can about the fate of his father and brother his gen. he will also take him to colonial digna 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, but they've never had an in depth conversation. luis is a well known figure in chalet. he was once one is president, salvador i and they is 40 gods on the day of the penis shake to the day i and they died. he was with him. most of the seem to be know, you know,
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if you're not mine okay, i will know the president came and shook hands with each of us and said gras yes, company at $430.00 or 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 maybe he went into the salon with his collection of cough gifted close the door. and we heard in the mon, well, i heard 2 or 3 shots, sheila porter, it is a see and your little bit. so most of those are going to be by. but before that i you, i heard the words, i you and they will not surrender. god dammit, then i heard the shots, you still get there? where do you? that's how i remember it. me call it or you my colleague got he though, went to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself. and he said 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.
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ringback luis enriquez again, has conducted extensive investigations into colonial digney dad, as well as the 2 land secret police do not know metre, the credential momento navina. dina had a station and thought about you and had a base and colonial dig me that in. yeah. so where else would they have been taken out on a piece or 200 already, a lot of people in the part of prison were picked up in there. got a bunch of and we don't know where they were taken. that's a different plan for us. that go use the most common theory is that they were buried in colonial dignity that are a lot verity appear to be nancy if it gets even at the very narrative. see, see to do that. hon is really 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
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court of justice. my, my priority is my family. i want to know when my father was killed on what day, where his remains rest so that i can finally say good bye. see, laminate 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 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. the guy
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before the end of that, i mean a, that's a dental we have. i mean the real has family album is incomplete. in the last 50 years, luis has had normal photos of his grandfather miguel and his father his bath tow to add to it is fun. remember the night passed on? right. not like i said or window the i'm gonna say. so 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 academy. and yet it was came from the time 8 over 8. 08. okay. 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 after the pin a shake, who this was tantamount to a death sentence. louise only read. he looks at the family album
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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 sleep and i filled a pain all over again. oh, that'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 this old allies. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings and effect you deeply. that the as 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 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
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still alive if it's possible that my brother is there in the gym and calling you cuz i guess it 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 they present be at least the next morning. one is in minot as 300 kilometers away. his brothers sat here was imprisoned behind these walls. he'd been a member of president. and today's popular unity policy, unlike his older brother and father, he was released 3 years later in prison. sasha, what 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 when he's
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growing game or be there. i didn't know if i get out of the game once i was in my email for me that he was always with megan, and me a hug. he might be on speak like a ho 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. i can get a man who's been in prison. the we've seen told me they would be sending it 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
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a memorial event in the city of t. n 6. former pulse of this highschool where executed shortly after finish chase, 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 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 same portions, 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 the user to get broken. the
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barnes fun taney is the performs a quite the traditional to land which he uses to express his determination to perceive the truth. the colonial digney dad now called viet uh, was founded in 1961 by a gem and preach power schafer. it was a pseudo religious sect. the colony was heavily guarded. it was in living how so many who lives the and for the members of today's opposition who would torture to? of the over a period of 35 years schafer raped dozens,
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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 $300.00 also residents of colonia digney that were essentially slaves. children was separated from the parents and put to work every day. among them was host 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 them. to come, we will complete the enslaved us with inspection come yvonne to the dark as clocked over the years that have been plans to erect memorials to the residents who
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suffered colonia digney that the 2 lands who were tortured and did that. but to date, nothing has happened. neither the gem and know the 2 land government has ever followed through. for years these 2 groups of victims had no contact with one another. at some point they were organized meetings bringing them together. the development that was welcomed by husband dom on a former resident of colonia digney, that the idea is uninformed. charleston stones, now a friendship has developed v lights on. we've recognized their suffering and they recognized ours bite us. yep. 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. 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 in
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2 days time, one, whenever i live here with his family to renew, demands for a memorial of the national, encompassed father was a close confidant of polish schafer, could chanel encompass 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 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 lay in stage 2. the military people spared the new task on taxes. it
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pains us to this day that this happened to you on our grounds, and it was on the people were brought here and tortured us boards in the 2nd or 3rd or 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 comp recognizes the suffering of the relatives of the 2 land disappeared in his mind from, 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. the power
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schafer found sexually arousing funds. no, you own it wasn't just boys. 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 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 that commemorates the suffering. after the arrest one's father and brother, i 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. colonial digna dad was close by. one is sure,
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that's where his relatives were murdered. 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 it's becoming increasingly dangerous. but that determines to get that ok. the you never give up. hope that you'll find out something we've been looking for so long, and i've never had an unsettled cause anymore. 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 or nothing happens and we leave empty handed. is it for the most or for no, no, no going. no. i hope this time we'll get some answers to all of our questions the, that some of them before the door was i alone was also relatives of the
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disappeared that going into the potato seller. much to the disappointment, the guide contents of the central question. where all the loved ones, none of the older generation who lived here. people who might still have important information on presence. or you know, renew. patricio, who is guiding. the grade was taken away from his mother, and forcibly adopted by colonial digney that as a child. but he's too young to know anything that can help one and his relatives that frustrated. right, i think with this made this never seem to be only it would 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, the profit helps it would reassure us better. we hope that was all
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but this woman from nearby para complete, he rejects 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 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 we don't want to share memorial didn't look, they cost us so much suffering. they killed people and we don't want to share anything with the way he is part of a struggle and it remains the struggle. we want to know when a relative saw the wonderful media pod as it 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. assume just that i'm looking for my father and my brother is
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like, 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. once 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. 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 point where they can sort of coverage definitely already being credited back
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in the capital. santiago did surely this weekend marks 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. the nature of the demonstration has 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
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. we just want to remind people of what happened here. yeah. because of, you know, it could be, we want people to know, especially the younger generation who don't necessarily have enough information. you know, do you 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 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,
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we couldn't and with the support of our president with this to if i believe we will manage to establish the truth as revised revised upon is empty when we usually right in front of the policy come, retains a king to talk to one and take his picture. i don't says he's quite tough for one last time on this journey. he's found no new traces of his father and process, but one is not giving the india for expected sage allison's attribute
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