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to do musicians who lives in the savannah office, austin film about the sounds of power and inspiring story about the volume music under the swastika starts may 25th on d. w. 50 is one. eduardo rojas vasquez has been searching for his father, an older brother. chevy mo, most still have some hope that my brother is alive, leaving ken during the pena shay dictatorship and on the number of july ends with tortured and murdered. in the notorious colonial degree, dad klein believes it was bad, that his father matches death tv. the site wants to know when my father was killed on what day, where he's remains,
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then i can finally say good bye. fine has 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? the tragedy has known as a shot to the family plans father and eldest brother, i were arrested on october, the 13th, 19731 months off to the coolant by general. uncle stokely no shame since then. there's been no trace of them. louise is us on this wireless missing brother. well,
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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, besetty hours 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, he at least managed to escape, punish shay's military dictate to show my cause to get on. i get into the cell 6 very thank the the 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,
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we've all suffered from these tragedy in the light and i, in the places ship side 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 intended bad to brute the family closer together. but they need flu shot. reese, s ones. oh, this nephew isn't somebody 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 no one it is. all i want is to know
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the 3 weeks the 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 that demanding of system finds the question to use well on chalets, disappeared. they knew that ports again, 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
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room and never seen again. doctor white's plans father and older brother has been missing since the arrest in october 1973 for an 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 chalet and secret police operated a torch is sent to the port just crossed the demonstration is taking place outside the home of hot tub. a form 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 ready b as in can i just as we have suffering and i come but as a to a friend suffering the 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 to see how it feels. friedman, how my soul weeps every day here brighten,
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getting dark is that hot. smith hope 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. i see you guys in 2011 hops was sentence to 5 years in prison in chile for aging. and the best thing, the abuse of children, but he managed to flee to germany 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 was mister hub as policy. if us right hand man, you have key information that could help solve the crimes of colonial digney done. and you know, do you have tormented the survivors and relatives of the victims long enough and you speak up at last and break. your silence helps silence strength. and this one's
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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, the louise and the because they get it was the 1st member of the to lay in criminal 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 is president, salvador i and they is both the gods. on the day of the penis shake to the day 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 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 he went into the salon with his collection of coffee getting close the door. and we heard the mon, well, i heard 2 or 3 shots funeral, a porter is a cl jordan over so that it seemed to those or can any 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 said look at the you, that's how i remember it. are you my colleague got the the point to open the door and said to me, the doctor has killed himself. medici in the 2nd one's brother and father had been
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pushing prison in a small police station near the city of paris in the motor region, already in luis. and the, because they get has conducted extensive investigations into colonial digney dad as well as the 2 land secret police. dina, no, no, no media can answer momento. valona vena medina had a station and thought about you and had a face and colonial digney that i mean. yeah. so where else would they have been taken out of here? a lot of people in the part of prison and were picked up in their custody. a bunch of and we don't know where they were taken that sensitive by then for those that go use the most common theory is that they were buried in cologne. you're thing the that are a lot. they already appear to be. nancy is a minute that into now very and obviously she took it up when one is relieved that the former police investigator agrees his theory is plausible. know which i doubt if you me can vc vc has been meet this. i think the important thing for me
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personally is to know the truth, evicted me. i'm not doing this because i want to punish anyone that's up to the quotes when you use these. so 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 to chile. gabrielle bowditch, representing a left wing alliance, has been in office since march 2022. many families of chiles disappeared. have high hopes in him with the chillen states yet to really can from the tumor if it's passed 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
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for the that. i mean a, that's a dental 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 pay like i said, when of the i'm gonna 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 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. the louisa only ready looks at the family album level and
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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 and i feel the pain all over again. does not just to me, it's my whole family and also the, because we don't know where he is, what you, that there will be. it's a pain leave card with us all our lives. a photo can bring up a lot of feelings in effect you deeply that the the tomorrow one will be heading south, luis will join him in 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 palm is none of us 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,
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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 of this . i guess it may do that in that those people with a 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 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 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 most of me on the for the and i to sign in at the gates and there was always
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a b q outside. but i would always be trembling. i was so scared then you can try and get over there. if i didn't know if i get the house again, once i was in my email for me, that fee was always with megan. me a hug. he might be on speak nights so 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 a man who'd been in prison that with him 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
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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 teaches around veiling a plaque. and then memory fun 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 colonial dick need that transfer you guys across the board. 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 bye, and that's what we need. yeah,
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the, i'm going to get broken. the barnes fun taney is sleep performs a quite the traditional to land which he uses to express his determination to proceed with the choice. the 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 vaunted. it was in living how so many who left the and for the members of to lays 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 cloth bedroom window . a pump from a small clique of lead is most of the $300.00 or so residents of colonial digney that we're essentially slaves. children was separated from the parents and put to work 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 the come. we will complete the enslaved us with inspection come. yvonne to the dark as clocked over the
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years that have been plans to erect memorials to the residents who 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 hustling dom on a former resident of colonia technique that this is i do is i just want just installed now of friendship has developed via your life and we've recognized their suffering and they've recognized ours lightest well, 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 at us,
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but that's over now. i'm just like we embraced the one another home once a month. in 2 days time, one, whenever i live here with his family to renew demands for a memorial. an ocean and then comes father was a close confidant of polish schafer. could chanel encompass one of the west of colonia digna dad's perpetrators. he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and has since died. ana 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 color voided them around the 1973, the seller was made available to dina and the to a in stage 2,
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the military people spared the 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 forms in the 2nd 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 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 happens is which most of us procedure is for 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
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here they were routine lead 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. there 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 has to mount? it said it was just despicable cause i was 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 off to denver rest plans folder and browser was supposed to appear in courts here in perez that never happened. the last name location of miguel and his bad to was the police station in cadell colonial digna dad was close by. one
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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 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,
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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, 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 this amazing is never sent to be. 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 the box, right?
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as i've said before, the truth is liberating. profit helps. it would reassure us better. we hope that was out this women from nearby power completely reject any co operation with the former calling on us. the name was the phone. we don't want to share 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 them. where he is part of the 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,
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that's what we are in the community. so 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 my lease 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. 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
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a point where they can sort of coverage. that's the already being credited back in the capital santiago did truly 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 responds as a reminder dump times. the nature of the demonstrations passed off piece for me. this a bunch. i verified the guessing he about me. you kept me fucking water cannons that
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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 is 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 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 other relatives he meets today. the state has officially recognized 1460 disappeared. people from the pen of shape era, but there are believe to be many, many more presidents gabrielle voltage is attending the memorial service. fun would have liked to dump food of july on this high profile stage today. but it wasn't to be and he has high hopes and the left wing leader that any type of
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targeting is used. so we can say it's all over and dealt with. but this is a new beginning, but then we can finally look full we couldn't. and with the support of our president would have to, if i believe we will manage to establish the truths as before, i leave off, i sort of find 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 brother, but one is not giving the book the environment. trends technology come is digitalization
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