15-09-2023, 04:51 PM
Finally years after the evil that was Pinoche some families of those taken are managing to find each other, & the govt is starting to search for those murdered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world...earch.html
No one came out alive from the black site named for the street it was on: Simón Bolívar. It was little more than a house in a rural area east of the capital run by the regime’s intelligence agency, DINA. There were no witnesses or survivors to shed light on the detainees’ fates. For decades, there was only deafening silence.
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469 people who disappeared under Chile’s military rule from 1973 to 1990. Only 307 of them have been found and identified.
The measure marks the first time since the end of the Pinochet regime that the Chilean government has tried to find those who went missing — an effort that until now has largely fallen to the surviving family members, mainly women, who protested, went on hunger strikes and took their cases to court. So far, only through these judicial cases have burial sites been identified."
Stolen at birth
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/s...023-08-29/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...d-pinochet
[b]"S[/b]usana Barra’s home in a quiet suburb of Santiago, Chile, is only a few miles from the site of the former notorious Simón Bolívar death camp, which was operated by the secret police during the Pinochet dictatorship. Susana was eight years old when her 23-year-old sister, Jenny, was taken there in 1977, never to be seen again.
“No one left alive,” said Susana Barra, who wears a grainy, black and white picture of Jenny pinned to her chest – a symbolic gesture adopted by families still searching for relatives who disappeared during the Pinochet
This March, Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, announced the launch of a new plan to find the missing, part of his government’s electoral pledge to address human rights violations committed during the dictatorship.
The National Search Plan not only aims to find and identify the forcibly disappeared, but also to bring justice to the families affected by Pinochet’s atrocities.
“It’s about finding out the circumstances people were detained and how they were forcibly disappeared,” Luis Cordero Vega, justice and human rights minister, said.
[b]Pinochet himself died in 2006, never having faced justice, despite his arrest in London in 1998. He spent a year and half under house arrest – during which Margaret Thatcher sent him a gift of Scottish single malt whisky[b] – [/b]and was eventually freed on “humanitarian grounds”. He died with over 300 pending charges[b] [/b]against him."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world...earch.html
"Thirty-six years after Fernando Ortíz’s abduction and disappearance, his family finally received his remains: five bone fragments in a box.
Mr. Ortíz, a 50-year-old professor, was kidnapped in 1976 during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, rounded up with other communist leaders in Chile and sent to a torture center so secret that no one knew of its existence for three decades.No one came out alive from the black site named for the street it was on: Simón Bolívar. It was little more than a house in a rural area east of the capital run by the regime’s intelligence agency, DINA. There were no witnesses or survivors to shed light on the detainees’ fates. For decades, there was only deafening silence.
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Now, before the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled one of Latin America’s most stable democracies and installed the 17-year dictatorship that imprisoned, tortured and killed thousands of its opponents, Chile has enacted a national search plan to track down the remaining disappeared.
“Justice has taken too long,” President Gabriel Boric of Chile said during a ceremony on Wednesday in which he signed a presidential decree to codify the plan. “This is not a favor to the families. It is a duty to society as a whole to deliver the answers the country deserves and needs.”469 people who disappeared under Chile’s military rule from 1973 to 1990. Only 307 of them have been found and identified.
The measure marks the first time since the end of the Pinochet regime that the Chilean government has tried to find those who went missing — an effort that until now has largely fallen to the surviving family members, mainly women, who protested, went on hunger strikes and took their cases to court. So far, only through these judicial cases have burial sites been identified."
Stolen at birth
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/s...023-08-29/
[b]SANTIAGO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has traveled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time.[/b]
"She didn't know about me because they took me at birth and told her I was dead," Jimmy Lippert Thyden said in a TikTok video while on the plane to meet his mother for the first time. "When she asked for my body, they told her they had disposed of it."https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...d-pinochet
[b]"S[/b]usana Barra’s home in a quiet suburb of Santiago, Chile, is only a few miles from the site of the former notorious Simón Bolívar death camp, which was operated by the secret police during the Pinochet dictatorship. Susana was eight years old when her 23-year-old sister, Jenny, was taken there in 1977, never to be seen again.
“No one left alive,” said Susana Barra, who wears a grainy, black and white picture of Jenny pinned to her chest – a symbolic gesture adopted by families still searching for relatives who disappeared during the Pinochet
This March, Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, announced the launch of a new plan to find the missing, part of his government’s electoral pledge to address human rights violations committed during the dictatorship.
“We have a moral duty to never stop looking,” he said on a visit to a memorial site[b] [/b]in the north of Chile, where the bodies of 20 victims of Pinochet’s murderous campaign were unearthed in 1990.
A monumental task lies ahead: during the regime, political prisoners were abducted and executed throughout the country: from the vast northern desert, to the dense forests of the south. More than a hundred were taken in helicopters and cast – still alive – into the sea.
The National Search Plan not only aims to find and identify the forcibly disappeared, but also to bring justice to the families affected by Pinochet’s atrocities.
“It’s about finding out the circumstances people were detained and how they were forcibly disappeared,” Luis Cordero Vega, justice and human rights minister, said.
[b]Pinochet himself died in 2006, never having faced justice, despite his arrest in London in 1998. He spent a year and half under house arrest – during which Margaret Thatcher sent him a gift of Scottish single malt whisky[b] – [/b]and was eventually freed on “humanitarian grounds”. He died with over 300 pending charges[b] [/b]against him."
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in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)