again i would never buy the better luck when. i say he still finds it difficult to revisit the past. her son was disappeared 47 years ago ever since she has been fighting for closure she wants clarity on what happened her last still pains her every day. she wants to share everything she knows she talks about how the police took her boy away simply for being a member of a communist student organization whose stories will be added to an oral history archive with audio and video recordings that serve as a collective memory when you're not going to hear they came into our house to grab my son who else an entire patrol of about 50 armed police officers they just took him away. after researchers found a clue. some of the colonia dignidad files are still kept in the national archives

are chilling they include a filing cabinet with about $25000.00 index cards. you know future it contains notes taken during interrogations and well into this only happened once in chile is history so it proves that political prisoners were held on a german compound doors at work or. the sites head of information also compiled an index card on the saint is the son luis that means they probably held him prisoner . most likely he was also tortured in the sex underground passageways. now a saint is his relatives have set up a memorial plaque here is the 1st official memorial on those grounds. and the military personnel alike used the cellar for their interrogations more often than not they ended in torture and death. only after many years with families

finally permitted to put up a plan to remember their relatives cryptanalyst. of all the former sect members who still live here have already begun preparations for a large memorial site. the torch itself is being cleared out. there making room for a museum or a place of remembrance. a few kilometers away in the small city of peral families of the victims are fighting to see more commitment from chile's and germany's governments i can't accept how long the search for their loved ones is taking. misael is fernandez is also part of the campaign despite her 90 years of age if you're seeing another our relatives are buried out there somewhere it's our duty to look for them. my mother started searching for my disappeared brother and i swore to her that i would carry on her

search. of pain will only end once we find the remains of our family members and if we only find one body the pain we feel today will still be a little less. how to manage him and he has to help it to is to blame. a german chilean joint task force has been put together but the only been able to make a little headway. that's because members of the colonia dignidad have been standing in there why. under the pinochet dictatorship the sect had amassed great wealth farming and timber businesses she and estates an egg farm and even a gold mine. the sex slave is turned over millions in profits.

for years the sect was run as a charity then in 1989 the small syndicate have set leaders transferred all assets to a holding group with several stock corporations. it was a complicated web of companies with the sole purpose of maintaining operative and financial control. the colony was renamed via vieira the very a village in a holding group distributed a handful of shares to some of its former slaves. in this letter from 1998 pushing for all of his leadership to make sure that no victims quote would have a right to payments or compensation for decades. this was a measure against disloyalty and dissidents as he put it. is one such so called decided she was born into the sect to this day she into her husband suffer under the cruelty of over 40 years of forced labor with 0

compensation for damaged goods a good back then i just thought it was normal nobody ever explained anything to me negatively when handed any work contract so we couldn't ask the right questions or form our own ideas. the children were all inquisitive and bright but the brightest minds were kept sedated with drugs. when she examines or shares all doors seitan feels is frustration she was handed $51.00 in total in some day amount to about $3000.00 euros. but my guess is no use to me at all it's just a piece of paper i don't have any say in the matter no voting rights is just a slip of paper. cos shafiq was also handed a pittance from his tormentors to make ends meet and keep his family somewhat afloat he works as a beekeeper. i

turned 61 seriously we don't know how we'll get by. this well i want everyone to know how schaefer deliberately created a project. designed to keep us all excluded from any of the profits and. such as the share an enormous wealth sector to cumulated all small plot of land from the sprawling the states. or the very least a payout from. in all the years we've been shareholders we were always told this belongs to all of us and we believed it because we've never received a single payout. isn't a normal holding company shareholders buy and sell for profit. this is a completely different scheme. office it to many victims like cost in dollars in

t handed after 40 years of cruelty and slave labor basically pool meanwhile the sick leaders have moved up to managing to rake this in their firm with generous salaries and plenty of clout in the business. and none finance has been investigating the sex crimes for years the way things are now he says it's a disgrace. it's an ongoing injustice people were tortured and murdered here children were abused. you can't turn a place like that into a tourist resort but politicians have remained complicit and the public prosecution has no active role in investigating the crimes committed here. hempel lives in chile's capital said he was also born into the st today he works as a lawyer and is very outspoken against the new management it would be the jews he

says to compensate victims like host and doris for a lifetime a slave labor. it's a cartel of silence. even today the colonies leadership shares a mafioso like oath of silence and noncompliance and there's nothing we can do about it all the companies all their victims 45 years of wages and 45 years of contributions to pension payment to this day they have not paid out a single cent and. the bulk of the shares went to the 6 leaders in the 1990 s. confidence of the cult leader with an appointed directors. just a few years ago the chilean investor. into the company says the shareholder he was hoping for a profitable investment. only afterwards did he realize that it was a closed corporation there's no transparency and he has no say in any decisions

even though he holds 17 percent of all shamus. more outwardly this web of corporations would want you to believe that they honor inclusive participation ownership rights and democratic decision making. but in truth they're in very serious violation of any code determination regulations or see what. those who run the companies are also their own supervisors. he says the set set up 3 bogus firms so that the head of the board never lost control. simply meant to them or if you got all you have to do is change the share structure. but it will be is it that way all shareholders would have a real say in the operating companies not just the dummy companies. the video had couldn't be that. it would actually be quite easy. for the.

e.c. in theory in reality the management has quietly resisted any sort of opening who are these people today it's many who remain sons of former cult leaders intrusted with carrying on the company legacy from lofty management positions to michelin can't currently holds the reins of the via the vienna corporation his father court was sentenced to 5 years in prison in chile to systematic abuse and forming a criminal organization. today thomas agrees that 6 assets were distributed unfairly. tyler was. tame over on today's press back then i would say the distribution of shares was not done fairly. back then and the decision was guided by inheritance norms and based on who brought in how much money and unfortunately from today's point of view that's not quite equitable

. and there are other former cult members who run parts of the business and see a need for change one of his sisters and a chanel income is responsible for the 2 risen division she's calling for more transparency and justice for victims my wants is absolute a spirit is i want us to change the old share structure and the way it's described it is now it is unfair and an equal. or it is still members should be included in the winning cynical or any of the companies included in the holding should be able to generate profits that are paid out to the members. but not all directors agree many a still fighting change. tribe it is another into the management kaja. his father was the financial director of colonia

dignidad evaded chilean justice by fleeing to germany. and europe has been responsible for the corporation's legal affairs feels. the paper leaked was by a former sect member documents attempts to silence victims the witness explains that form a cult members were to exchange quote exclusive rights to their life stories and individual experiences for a plot of land. was this to ensure that past atrocities would remain concealed from public view. wanted to confront hansard struggle with these accusations but he refused to be interviewed who issue a statement on the matter. say the command structure of the full missing police on as does the injustice.

before you determine everything once you've all of a cell whatever they want and whenever they want to throw an error and the so called shareholders have no say in the matter mr raydon harm obviously all they care about is keeping everything for themselves unless there are. financial benefits at the expense of the sits forced laborers why wasn't the corporation dissolved after paul shave his wrist and the assets distributed fairly among former colony members. in 2005 this was almost the case after the cult leader was arrested in germany in chile could have at least changed the share structure but the foreign office tells us there was no legal possibility for germany should dissolve the corporation altogether instead from 2008 onwards the foreign office put forth funds for psychosocial support to remaining residents in addition to social missions money was also provided for business consultancy and for

unspecified infrastructure projects. there's also the what people need to know is as of 20042005 the foreign ministry actually supported this corporate structure because they were more worried about the colony they wanted all the settlers the stand she laid so as to keep the problem out of germany. in 2004 mr and mrs melissa presented an open letter to the 6 members and to german diplomats demanded that all assets be dissolved and distributed fairly. in under 3 hours. we asked them to dissolve the whole mess. and i'm finally give the people what they were promised 1st brought in to order one of us into state name and what they're entitled to vent their everything was supposed to belong to everyone and once this holding or whatever it is is dissolved to get my inch of then things can be distributed fairly

break going to raked over. their plate fell on deaf ears. this is done if busted the understood nothing happened they like the idea but they did nothing about it. so germany just looked the other way. you know exactly just like they did for all those decades thing to do it. many people agree with billy melissa to this day they believe the german state has failed them many such members can't comprehend why beer and roast poor can being served at a site was systematic abuse and torture once took place without any attempt at remembrance let alone reparations. in 2019 the german bundestag invited doris site not to belin there she demanded the 6 released funds from his assets and reimburse victims like her.

we completely on our own and in my family is a sort of us. to start whatever the foreign office has provided any financial support to the colony went straight into tourism and other things i haven't seen one cent not a single one i'm concerned it pains me to see corporations receive that kind of support while individuals who really deserve it own prosecutive from. the victims say that the legacy of cult leader paul shaffer still casts a dark shadow over the dishonest a corporation whose left behind has meant that after a lifetime of slavery they must continue to live in poverty long after his own death in 2010 but with his will there's a way and so when freed hempel continues to fight for justice. and if we

want an administration that seizes all of the colonies assets and manages them in a way that either the proceeds or the assets themselves go to the victims that is all we want more. justice. at least the hunt for mass graves has intensified after village molesters confession the judge lacks the money and the manpower for an exhaustive excavation . and germany for years the german government shied away from dealing with the simplest part of its past german diplomats actually maintained good relations with paul shaffer and his sect in 2017 the foreign office agreed to collaborate with chile to create a commission to document the crimes committed we are told that germany had offered chile to analyze soil samples from chile in its give

a chanst sites in german labs at the german government's expense. so far no samples a said to have arrived. why is the investigation stalling in chile. they're the minister of justice and human rights and my loveline is responsible for moving the investigation forward. he's also a long term supporter of the sect. in the 1990 s. he wrote about colonia dignidad we the signatories of this letter greatly appreciate the work that this association has done political scientist has spent years researching the aftermath of colonia dignidad and considers the minister to be one of the chief obstacles to overcome in the past. as mine as if it's

a thought. the other and i think mr lott i mean is keen to keep this issue under wraps and out of the public eye. but this is. where this is where i would like to see greater commitment from the foreign office and the german government that you all. are more it's like that on this issue would require proactive human rights policies. and the frog went to port even mentioned i don't see any in place at the moment is the moment when you see. the bottom line is the germany is polite even framing for pressuring chile that says chile's government just fine minister a lot of rain was not available for an interview he 1000000 founder's to chile had already spent the equivalent of the around 380000 euros on excavations and that cooperation with german experts would begin as soon as possible. the doubts linger of larenz true intentions of dealing with the past of cluny

a new dad he was a friend of the sect for decades as documents in a chilean national archive can prove the 6 registry also contains a file on a not lot i mean it says that as a young politician law even visited colonia dignidad shortly before the coup in chile as well shortly afterwards in 19841975. these were precisely the years in which the dictator had thousands of political opponents arrested tortured and murdered. some in the very cellars of colonia dignidad. is it possible the lottery and did not notice any of this during his 3 visits. the historian claudio salinas thinks not. from early on or non lot i mean repeatedly denied and dismissed all the accusations

leveled against colonia dignidad. although there were plenty of reports on torture and child abuse at that time. were telling me of the figure. according to the state's records close with one doctor and 2 individuals one albums and 100 according to experts these with a pitiful cult leader paul shaffer his chief financial officer. and the city's doctor hartmut hope it was in part thanks to love and support that the sect was able to carry on after the pinochet detained ended. it was not until the mid ninety's that the police began to investigate the 1st cases of abuse with brains on the 6 premises even then not even threw his weight behind the sick. or without the use of this on the hour or the lease units and investigators from all over the country want to search the german compound this is without precedent and

all because of one single complaint of child abuse a man or. the human rights committee of the chilean parliament is someone but the minister did not comply and outrange this human rights activist market. is nearly every input for what they should good morning in which a justice minister has protected the sect for many years even though he was aware of the crimes committed. in. the system prove. we have the evidence you know what's missing is the political will to carry out the prosecution is. this is the human rights law and none from the end is also criticizes the action of those responsible or. this is the most dramatic case in recent history neither the minister of justice nor the president or minister of

the interior are fulfilling the duties of their office. he has the right to demand the crimes of colonia dignidad be prosecuted. calling it deserves compensation clarification and justice and so yeah there are what i see on the. internet hempel is losing his patience with how little is being done. the visits were quite pessimistic i don't expect much from minister a lot i on the contrary i think he wants to just sweep the whole thing under the raj. at the same time there is not enough money on resources to conduct a proper search for the disappeared to torture victims. the relatives left behind and the officials fighting for the restitution feel of the hand and see them but even if it was a he war from moment to. the time we demanded the excavation site be protected we've got to say it was declared

a national monument but no efforts were made to secure the digging. the area remained publicly accessible anyone could get him this of course. presented with a. there's no professional forensics team he had to the funds were lacking. if. the 1st step towards truth and justice would be to return the victims' bodies to their families the issue is. if cooperation with germany was more effective we would have made more progress with that but you know i will also the remaining sect leaders should be interrogated. only from us and i think they know where the bodies are and could tell us where to look. they want to be. that many leading members of the sect of decided to remain silent and not in the

german or the chilean justice system seemed to have any interest in questioning them. and so the tourist trap remains a price we pass torres a mosque behind it didn't injury. really melissa is one of the few form a sect members to tell his story. does he deserve the only data so it's hard to kind of. the way i see it i was forced to do this work i had no choice but maybe i wanted to that doesn't mean i need to keep quiet about it now because there. is a kind of i knew that none of the others would say anything. of the old after i had testified i went to the est. and i told the

people there that i had just confessed. they insisted on knowing what exactly i had told the authorities. you know i said everything. i'm empty now minister there i left them to connect the dots they knew what they had done. moses accounted. to this day melissa he was not part of the cults top leadership circle struggles with the question of whether he too was one of the perpetrators. wish him to. who decides who is a perpetrator and who is a victim of crime on the one hand i'm one of the perpetrators. went on the other hand i'm also a victim does was it a mom most because what i had to do there was awful and i was never

given a choice i don't need food i was taken by surprise in order to put on the spot schaefer hadn't told me what kind of work i'd be doing where you couldn't eat was it does you know it might or. might you know. the families of the missing too it's a victim's a quite fair to me so for his testimony of it. thanks to his courage they might eventually find within for the tips of buried. in. the gallery also i remember when i spoke out because i felt it was my duty to lift the veil of secrecy. and give back what belongs to those or more families. good to go they deserve to know where their loved ones have gone. what do you believe that. alyssa had the courage to confess as long as others

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