this is it over your news a live shot from berlin with less than 2 days left until president elect joe biden's inauguration and the u.s. remains on high alert defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack from the troops meant to be protecting the capital will get an update from our correspondent in washington also coming up on the show tougher coronavirus restrictions looking creasing likely for germany as concerns grow over a new virus variants widely believed to be even more transmissible. and

kremlin critic alexina voluntary calls for russians to take to the streets after his jailed upon his return to moscow he calls his treatment a mockery of justice in several countries now once new sanctions to hold moscow to account but it has told them to mind their own business. hello and play richardson welcome to the show we begin in the united states where the f.b.i. is vetting all 25000 service personnel involved in security for president elect a joe biden's inauguration later this week defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other potential threat with less than 2 days until biden takes office washington d.c. has become a fortress city of roadblocks and barricades security concerns have gripped the city since riots at the capital on january. 6 people going. running to safety into

the capitol building these personnel were caught up in a lockdown during a rehearsal for the upcoming integration. b.r.s. we keep going right inside the cause. a false alarm the fire at a nearby fearless encampment was later deigned not a threat but the reaction from authorities perfectly encapsulates the current anxiety in washington i've never seen anything like this and i've been in d.c. a long time it's terrifying just to see you know the capital of our country and you know we stand on values like freedom and democracy and you see these things wall of these are structures and more than 20000 national guard troops have been deployed across the city buildings have been barricaded main streets and bridges blocked all because pro trump extremists are thought to pose a serious danger. the way in which donald trump supporters are being

looked at and talked about i want to force is exactly the way that you look at and talk about al qaeda and isis we're talking about online shatter we're talking about the dark wet we're talking about efforts to commit violence against the united states and its institutions into assassinate members of the government and they're not going to hang up their guns in their m.o.'s on january 20th with security high and coronavirus concerns limiting crowds joe biden swearing in will be unlike any previous immigration flags will replace supporters in front of the u.s. capitol and the outgoing president will not be present to symbolize the peaceful transfer of power let's cross to washington d.c. and our correspondent all over salat all over you at the u.s. capitol today tell us what the situation is like now less than 2 days before joe biden takes office. and we filmed inside the militarized zone and that's

really what it is no it does not feel like a city anymore but rather like some kind of a militarized zone and that perimeter in which the u.s. capitol is was under a complete lockdown today because of a fire there are some thousands some 25000 soldiers in fact patrolling inside and outside the capitol we witnessed an arrest yesterday but there's also some normalcy coming back to the capital there were rehearsals under way a marching band practice and also the sound check exactly where joe biden is going to be sworn in in less than 48 hours or so and that certainly will be a ceremony unlike any other because he will be sworn in in front of hardly any guests here describing a city clearly on high alert and u.s. defense officials have said they are worried about an insider attack from the very troops meant to keep the inauguration safe what is a law enforcement doing to make sure that service members assigned to provide

security don't in fact themselves pose a threat the f.b.i. is currently vetting their 25000 national guardsmen for that very useful those very reasons of course those are the ones that are able to get close to joe biden and they are heavily armed i spoke to one national guardsman today and he said of course yes there are both sides of the political aisle are represented within the national guard and there are certainly trying supporters some that are very frustrated about joe biden's election victory many that don't believe that victory of course and again they are armed so it's a big challenge certainly but the f.b.i. also remains optimistic that they have the situation under control that's now been nearly 2 weeks since extremists stormed the u.s. capital what is the state of the investigation into that. so several hundreds have been arrested so far 2 in washington d.c. over the last days i witnessed one the other one have been earlier. in the last

week where an armed individual with 500 rounds of ammunition was called he was trying to get inside the capitol perimeter with fake id credentials so really tensions are running high here what also became clear in the investigation there is a lawmakers were involved in planning the attack on the capitol some 3 republican lawmakers were actively involved other active and former lawmakers were in the crowd and conservative insiders as well and that really shows that this was the storming of the capitol was not only inside the prison and troll but also 1 organized and orchestrated by some of his very own party members. in washington d.c. thank you very much. meanwhile u.s. president elect joe biden's team says he won't lift coronavirus travel restrictions for europe the u.k. ireland and brazil the comments come after the outgoing u.s. president donald trump announced that curbs would be lifted from january 26th

a spokesperson for biden said his administration plans to further strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of covert 19 air passengers bound for the us are required to test negative for kofi $1000.00 within 3 days of their departure. and german chancellor angela merkel is set to hold talks with state leaders later on tuesday to discuss the country's response to the coronavirus and demick they're expected to extend the current partial lockdown beyond january and introduce tighter restrictions the virtual meeting has been a brawl forwarded due to concerns over new variants of the virus which appear to be more transmissible the german government has warned there is still a long way to go before infections get under control. what straits in berlin and most who do venture out are wearing masks and it seems to be helping there's been

a slight drop in the number of coded 19 infections but the government is preparing to further tighten restrictions and berliners say that's a good thing. i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end. i really hope that we realise that we'll have to put up with these restrictions until at least the summer. when half of. america will discuss tougher restrictions with state leaders that made concerns that new virus mutations could cause a surge in new cases. highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in germany one variant of spray 3 great britain the other through south africa and at the moment we have further warring reports from brazil . some opposition politicians are calling on the government to do more to stop people from going to work or.

absolutely possible for about 40 percent of all office workers to work from home last week only 14 percent did so we did better even during the 1st lock down so there is room for improvement. mosques are also on the agenda after birth varia made f f p 2 must compulsory in shops and on public transport they have higher filtering capabilities and it said the federal government is considering a nationwide adoption of the measure but these masks are more expensive people who can't afford them will receive felts as. with health officials say in case thomas remained too high tougher restrictions are likely to be announced. and the kremlin's most a vocal critic alexei navalny has been jailed for 30 days he was detained immediately upon his return to russia on sunday after recovering from poisoning by a nerve agent last summer russian prosecutors say he violated the parole terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement and felony and his supporters say the charges

are politically motivated now germany has joined many other countries in calling for his immediate release. full of guys. let him go chanting of all me supporters outside the police station in him the facility holding of all made doubles as a makeshift courthouse in order to quickly process his case after learning he'd soon be jailed of all he took aim at vladimir putin and urged his backers to rise up to what is the code most afraid of what are these thieves hiding in a bunker most afraid of you know what perfectly good people taking to the streets because this is the political factor they can't ignore it's the most important thing is the essence of politics don't be afraid to take the streets not for me but for yourselves and your future. you thought you would. have all me was arrested on sunday as he returned to russia from berlin already has claimed he was violating

the terms of a suspended prison sentence. he had spent months recovering in germany from a near fatal poisoning he blames on the russian government germany and other western governments denounced his arrest. to boost the german government condemns the arrest of mr valma immediately after his voluntary return to his russian homeland. to charge mr neighbor thigh lation of his probation after an arbitrary verdict that is against any principle of the rule of law. the kremlin has denied any involvement in the poisoning on monday the russian foreign minister dismissed criticism over his recent arrest she was through so you can feel the joy of their carbon copy comment joy because returning a partly helps the western politicians to think they can know destruct their citizens from the deepest crisis the liberal system has found themselves in was the

. president's several countries have called on the e.u. to consider imposing sanctions on moscow for throwing of all me in jail he will remain in prison pending a trial. and it's the hallmark of quality fine dining the michelin guide its stars are coveted by chefs the world over but widespread restaurant closures this year meant compiling the guide was a logistical nightmare some inspectors canceled their vacations to squeeze in as many restaurant visits as possible whenever lock down restrictions eased up the hard work was all worthwhile and has made some chefs very happy oh. yeah that overcome with emotion after winning a 3rd michelin star in the midst to much of his times for the gusto anime industry this was a chink of light for chef alex on time as the despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing chefs to close their restaurant draw us months the michelin guys annual french edition went ahead with its awards for 2021 and it's reward restaurants who

got creative doing look sound. am restaurant was among them during the streets last year with the food truck when the country's gastronomy was supposed to shut the him the stuff is a much needed boost. so the heart says it gives us energy for when we reopen so we're going to prepare ourselves for that prepare ourselves to be at this level you know it's like a top level sportsman has a serious injury you do everything you can to prepare yourself to be able to return to that pitch again. it'll make us even stronger to be able to bounce back. some other feed lists have cancelled their rankings but michelin widely seen as the world's guest on in the bible said they decided to bestow their verdicts to help highlight the industry in what's been a brutal year remember memphis are now more than ever it didn't make sense brought

teams to waste the seattle even if we're coming out of a terrible year and even if there are difficulties ahead of us on the contrary we had to be there because not giving out the stars to be unfair to the chefs who worked at the cia who struggles who were creative and even in some cases succeeded in taking another step forward. chefs of us and has restaurant flood one a michelin star last year. he said that while the lockdown meant his restaurant wasn't able to reap the benefits of winning the star he still welcomed the much needed recognition for the trades. but the choice to see news corp moves it and i think if the michelin guys can help french just run to me and chefs who are having a very difficult time right now and put a spotlight on the profession then that's a good thing to come into this room with me you can book shows with the pandemic raging on foodies will be unlikely to be able to book tables at his or any other

restaurant anytime soon. and we're all looking forward to their speedy return but if they're from me and the news team tough guy you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's a t w dot com or follow us on social media acting to be a news i'm curt richardson embroil and thanks so much for joining us. by calling me oh and i'm game did you know is that 17 trillion dollars or killed worldwide here but it's not just the animals total suffering it's the environment if you want to know how when you lift up the crease alcohol just strange stuff so the thing to listen to our podcast on the green comes.

some way these woods human remains to be buried under the ground. torture victims who died at the hands of the german sect henchmen a chinese dictator augusto pinochet now witnesses to the crimes of breaking decades of silence often not very good i knew that this was the most dangerous moment of my life and. to this day the families of the victims are struggling to find out what happened to their loved ones. it was all i want to know is where i love them and what happened to you. i count for ningaloo that i have given one away i want to see mostly because we had to pressure the few seconds later as who are still alive in order to get enough information we will know by the painful

look up. that the leaders of colonia dignidad have remained stopping lee taciturn things but this system is driving it works on all levels down to the smallest detail that. today is the place where people are cruelly mistreated has become a site for jovial gatherings justice and remembrance up to now any attempts at dealing with the past have been obstructed has been hard it's a regime of injustice that is still manages the assets it unlawfully amassed with the blood tears and slave labor of others. illegal. actually an investigation team is on its way to the compound of the former sec colonia dignidad. on the way it passes the communist parochial schools

and a front gate. the soul into this vast. settlement is still guarded just as it used to be. nowadays the sign reads welcome to the very a village. these days colonia dignidad has become a business for agriculture and to reason. the offices dried deep into the heart of this state. they're looking for mass rights. the ground has been torn up in many places in the tireless search for the dead bodies hastily buried he is some 40 years ago where exactly no one can say or want. they've taken samples of the soil from various spots it's a never ending task. of a boil over which

a lands have to face our past but this here could be one of its darkest chapters it's our duty to shed light on it and show it to the world and. so far they've had little success in their search for the victims of the sect as well as chile's military regime in. chile is dictator augusto pinochet had his left wing political opponents of arrested on mass at the beginning of the 1970s. they were rounded up in places like this stadium in the capital center. pinochet had many prisoners tortured and murdered in the cellars of colonia dignidad outwardly the so-called colony of dignity appeared quite pious but in reality it was a strictly guarded sex with corporal punishment slave labor and torture. led by the pedophile sex founder paul shaffer and his closest allies colonia dignidad would closely with a dictator. the very implication france you'll succeed was said to have been

a friend of the set of the german embassy and she was aware of the crimes being committed but still send any who escaped back to the sect it wasn't until decades later in 2016 the germany admitted it's killed. if you are in fact 40 years german diplomats at best turned a blind eye that's because shouts they did far too little to protect their fellow citizens in this colony is a colony time. post shall freak still lives on the grounds of connally dignidad he used to be captured as a slave brutally mistreated and beaten by fellow germans leading the set i think there were some bizarre times they'd even beat me unconscious i was so bloody my clothes

stuck to my skin i couldn't sit for weeks i had to lean on my hands and slowly ease myself into a chair. it was enough to drive anyone mad so vanished. post was forced to work 7 days a week there was no regular school for him to attend lessons was staged for recordings so the sex could project a picture perfect community to the outside world just like the many festivities helped to impress visitors in. the hellish truth behind this shiny vinnie a still haunts whose chef rick. lives here in the grounds because he doesn't know where else to turn he occupies a tiny room with his wife in 2 children despite years of therapy decades of torture have left the physical and emotional months. you have to say this sometimes my blood pressure shoots up to 180 and i just can't work anymore i simply

can't afford to carry on like this i got from the german embassy knew to people like who shafeeq would trap tina slaves and they did nothing to put an end to it cost is furious before long and hard to compensation but the state was slow to respond. its germany's responsibility to make up for 3035 years of cruelty towards children and miners some were just 8 years old but this is a disgrace that marks the german state if they have to pay for what they've done. only in 2020 digimon he stopped paying out financial support to victims like host a one off some captain 10000 euros. a year and the judge mahdi across the heads the search for mass graves. during his investigations he stumbled upon this don he has

a sturdy sela. of course has evaluated witness statements and his certain there was a secret prison below this concrete slab. to. this is where they brought political prisoners and were 1st they were interrogated then tortured after that many were executed. with 0. cost is now focused on locating the bodies in the woods he's following in your late . yellow when. there are still places where more mass graves could be located. and. that's what a new witness has told us. we haven't found anything yet but we expect to uncover human remains there up on mental rest. bodies. from the 1970 s. somewhere in the middle of nowhere the new witness. he has turned to the public to

speak openly about the unspeakable horror he experienced in his saying. what he saw he had 1st testified to the investigating judge years ago at the end of the 1970 s. he was ordered by schaefer the head of the sex to help cremate the bodies they dug up. yesterday i was there when the 1st little truck arrived and left. it was full of remains. my. charcoal. bits of bone all mixed together. with. it had been painstakingly scraped up from the ground and to leave no trace behind us. that was loaded onto the truck. i know the truck drove through a ravine where there used to be an old windmill. there

was a ford there that stretched across the river that's where they dumped them 1st. after that he says all evidence was destroyed but there was one mass grave they couldn't find according to melissa the bodies lying there couldn't be removed or cremated he told the authorities where this mess craft might be as far as he can remember. the archaeologist even cussedness is in charge of searching for the remains. or vehement thinking that with that awful idea of the route the decades since the 1970 s. the forest has renewed itself. but all of it. but its basic structure has stayed the same if you will fully out of the. bottom of it

and we feel them and we cleared the ground very thoroughly and came across a layer of burnt earth that was much finer than we had expected you might and we mean were given the field to put on one count. and yet this search for 30 mass graves remains unsuccessful this sect was good at covering its trying. not to put on a contorted friend went to believe we thought we would find some remains of the corpses no you know not but the sect and the military must have been able to operate completely under stir. they were virtually invisible i mean that's all he was and schaefer the sect leader made sure that no ordinary sect member was allowed to see the mass graves but if you let me walk in while they were burning the corpses they claimed that there was a controlled fire in the forest. really melissa had to help with the cremations it still pains him today. sunday for uncharted and so i was forced to decide

who's i mean i could have stood up and said i wouldn't do it. but i knew that this was the most dangerous moment of my life and most of. the most i only had a few moments to make up my mind. whether to continue or not or just vitamin water and if. he was afraid of being punished or even killed himself. after melissa statement customers doubled down on his efforts to one cover the traces of the mass graves. but he has had to contend with a shortage of staff money and expertise. in order to make some real progress we have to take samples of the charred ground

along with other extensive soil samples and send them over to germany you know their forensic specialists could check the samples for traces of d.n.a. that would tell us if people were buried there and who they might have been. that's exactly what the loved ones of the torture victims left behind a fighting for. once a year they travel to the grounds of the sect to move on. they still don't know what happened to their brothers and sisters his sons and daughters . they cannot bear the thought that their family may have been tossed into an unmarked grave somewhere out there. nor can they bear the deafening silence of so many other witnesses who couldn't find the courage to leave melissa did truth seekers like me say it is from the end is a disappointed you easier know when you look at the name. all i have this one photo

of you my son and the question remains where are you what happened to you i can't find you i've searched for you far and wide and i still haven't found a trace of well. at least the crimes are slowly being dealt with from a historical perspective. today mercedes receives a special visit to researches the helping conduct to study for the friday university takes in berlin they want to learn everything they can about maceda says disappeared son luis. getting more new but again. i'm happy i was able to bear witness to remember the past with a little of the people i want today is used to understand that atrocities like this must never be allowed to happen again. but i.

must 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 till 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 minear not girl. they came into our house to grab my son luis an entire patrol of about 50 armed police officers they just took him away. after researchers found a clue busy. some of the colonia dignidad files are still kept in the national

archives are chilling they include. a filing cabinet with about 25000 index cards. you know future it contains notes taken during interrogations and this only happened once in chile is history so it proves that political prisoners were held in a german compound doors at work or. the sites head of information also compiled an index card on a 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 set is relatives have set up a memorial plaque here is the 1st official memorial on these 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 plot to remember their relatives grim friends. of the former sect members who still live here have already begun preparations for a larger memorial site. the torch aside is being cleared out. there making room for a museum or a place of remembrance. a few kilometers away in the small city of power are families of the victims of fighting to see more commitment from chile's and germany's governments they can't accept how long the search for their loved ones is taking. sadie's 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. if the. 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. have imagined many has to help it to is to blame. a german chilean joint task force has been put together but they've only been able to make a little headway. that's because members of the colonia dignidad have been standing in their way. under the pinochet dictatorship the set had amassed great wealth farming and timber businesses huge forests. an egg farm and even a gold mine. the sex trade is turned over means and 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 v. above year a very a village and a holding group distributed a handful of shares to some of its former slaves. in this letter from 1980. ordered 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 we went 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 the shares all tourist site and feels is frustration she was handed $51.00 in total in some day amount to about $3000.00 euros this 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

turn 61 serious and if you're a clock we don't know how we'll get by. it meshed. this well i want everyone to know how schaefer deliberately created a fraudulent system designed to keep us all excluded from any of the profits and. such as the share an enormous wealth said to the cumulated or a small plot of land from the sprawling a states. or the very least a payout from. in. all the years we've been shareholders we were always told this along 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. as. many victims like in

t handed after 40 years of cruelty and slave labor. pool meanwhile the sickly does have moved up to managing to write this in their firm with generous salaries and plenty of clout in the business. and none finance has been investigating the 6 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. intreat hempel lives in chile's capital santiago he was also born into the same chain he will just 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 of 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 changes.

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 see. 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. and if you simply meant to no more if you get all you have to do is change the share structure. but it will be that way all shareholders would have a real say in the operating companies not just the dummy companies. the video had to be they perceive it would actually be quite easy. for the 1st.

e.c. in theory in reality the management has quietly resisted any sort of opening who are these people today it's many theists who remain sons of former cult leaders intrusted with carrying on the company legacy from lofty management positions to michelle and can't currently holds the reins of the v. above yet a corporation his father court was sentenced to 5 years in prison in chile for systematic abuse and forming a criminal organization today thomas agrees that 6 assets were distributed unfairly . the act of a tyler was. tame over on today's perspective i would say the distribution of shares was not done fairly. back when 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 a national income is responsible for the tourism division she's calling for more transparency and justice for victims my wants is absolute as we are these i want to stick change the old share structure and the way it's distributed now is unfair and unequal. all members should be included in the winnings 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 are still fighting change. schreiber is another into the management kaja. his father was the financial director of colonia dignidad evaded chilean justice by fleeing to germany. and

still has been responsible for the corporation's legal affairs for years. the paper leaked to us by a former sect member documents attempts to silence victims the witness explains that former cult members were to exchange quote exclusive rights to their life stories and individual experiences for a plot of land. was this to ensure the past atrocities would remain concealed from public view. we wanted to confront hansard struggle with these accusations but he refused to be interviewed all issued a statement on the matter. say the command structure for the same song as does the injustice.

before they determine everything 10 on a cell whatever they want and whenever they want to throw an error and the so called shareholders have no say in the matter. obviously all they care about is keeping everything for themselves homeless as there are throughout. financial benefits at the expense of the sets forced laborers why wasn't a corporation dissolved after paul schaefer's of 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 to stand she lay so as to keep the problem out of germany. in 2004 mr mrs molests a presented an open letter to the 6 members and to jim in diplomats demanded that all assets be dissolved and distributed fairly. in under 2 hours. we asked them to dissolve the whole mess. and i'm finally give the people what they were promised 1st broadwater or bust into hate men 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 do they get more inch of then things can be distributed fairly

break your rate of get told. that their plate fell on deaf ears. this is done if but the understood nothing happened they like the idea but they did nothing about it so germany just looked the other way. going to exactly just like they did for all those decades thing to do it. many people agree with really melissa to this day they believe the german state has failed them many 6 members can't comprehend why beer and roast pool can being served to decide was systematic abuse and torture once took place without any attempt at remembrance let alone reparations. in 2019 digimon bundestag invited doris sutton and to belin there she demanded the 6 released funds from his assets and reimburse victims like oh oh.

we're completely on our own. in my family is and it's 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 pains me to see corporations receive that kind of support while individuals who really deserve it own prosecutive from. the peak to say that the legacy of cult leader paul shaffer still casts a dark shadow over the dishonest a corporation he's 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 it provides 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 villa melissa's confession . and judge carlson 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 he said 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 shit site in german labs at the german government's expense. so far no samples are said to have arrived. why is the investigation stalling in chile. they're the minister of justice and human rights emmeline is responsible for moving the investigation forwards. 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 it is

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 why this is where i would like to see greater commitment from the foreign office and of the german government that you all. are more get psyched that all this issue would require proactive human rights policies. and a frog one a poor even mention i don't see any in place at the moment. in moments when i see. the bottom line is the germany is plotting for framing for pressuring chile that suits government just fine minister a lot of rain was not available for an interview he millionfold as to chile had already spent the equivalent of around 380000 euros on excavations and that cooperation with german experts would begin as soon as possible. the doubts linger of lot i ain't true intentions of dealing with the past of colonia

dignidad he was a friend of the sect for decades as documents in the chilean national archive can prove this 6 registry also contains a file on an odd lot i mean it says that as a young politician law even visited colonia dignidad shortly before the coup in chile as well as shortly afterwards in 198-4975. these were precisely the use in which the dictator had thousands of political opponents of arrested tortured and murdered. some in the very selfless of colonia dignidad. is it possible that laurie and did not notice any of this during his 3 visits. the historian claudio salinas thinks not. from early on air non-logic repeatedly denied and dismissed all the accusations

leveled against colonia dignidad. but although there were plenty of reports on torture and child abuse at that time. according to the 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 dictatorship ended. it was not until the mid ninety's that the police began to investigate the 1st cases of abuse with raids on the 6 premises even then threw his weight behind the sick. hoping that the. police 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. or. the human rights committee of the chilean parliament or someone in but the minister did not comply and outrange this human rights activist margarito may go. as he wanted every impulse of. the morning in which a justice minister has protected the sect for many years even though he was aware of the crimes committed there in the. second floor. we have the evidence you know what's missing is the political will to carry out the prosecution is. a. human rights lawyer and non-financial is also criticizes the action of those responsible. this is the most dramatic case in chief lays recent history neither the minister of justice nor the president or

minister of the interior are fulfilling the duties of their office but including going to reside 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 their. interest 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 leave the whole thing under the russian. at the same time there is not enough money or resources to conduct a proper search for the disappeared to talk shit tim's. the relatives left behind and the officials fighting for their restitution feel abandoned. him but when i suppose he wants a moment to get out of the time we demanded the excavation site be protected we 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. the 1st step towards truth and justice would be to return the victims' bodies to their families really. if cooperation with germany was more effective we would have made more progress with that you know why. also the remaining sect leaders should be interrogated. only from us i think they know where the bodies are and could tell us where to look the. guy they want to be who want to put. that many leading members of the sect to decided to remain silent and neither the

german or the chilean justice system seem to have any interest in questioning them . and so the tourist trap remains a place with past horrors amassed behind it did injury. really melissa is one of the few form a sect members to tell his story. does he deserve. only 0 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 but that doesn't mean i need to keep quiet about it now because the. kind of i knew that none of the others would say anything . after i had testified i went to the estate. and i told the people there that i had just confessed.

they insisted on knowing what exactly i had told the authorities vison you know i said everything. i'm empty now minister there i left them to connect the dots they knew what they had done. most accountable. to this day melissa who was not part of the cult's top leadership circle struggles with the question of whether he too was one of the perpetrators they. wish him to. who decides who is a perpetrator and who is a victim of them on the one hand i'm one of the perpetrators. but on the other hand i'm also a victim desperately to my most because what i had to do there was awful

and i was never given a choice. i was taken by surprise in order to put on the spot say for hadn't told me what kind of work i'd be doing where you could indicate what he does or not what mother. you might you know. the families of the missing torture victims a quite fair to me simply his testimony of it. thanks to his courage they might eventually find within minutes of being read. 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.

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