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Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:48 PM Dec 2014

Complaint over sexual abuse during Pinochet dictatorship proceeding in Chile

Source: Agencia EFE (Spain national news agency)

Complaint over sexual abuse during Pinochet dictatorship proceeding in Chile
Published December 01, 2014/
EFE

Nieves Ayress Moreno, a woman who was imprisoned during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, on Monday confirmed her participation in the first complaint over sexual violence during the Chilean military regime, 40 years after the crimes were committed.

"We're on the right road," Alejandra Holzapfel, another of the victims who, along with Ayress Moreno and two other companions, presented the complaint over sexual harassment committed at the Pinochet regime's so-called Venda Sexy, Londres 38, Tejas Verdes and Villa Grimaldi detention centers between 1973 and 1990.

With this complaint, the four plaintiffs, Holzapfel, Ayress Moreno, Soledad Castillo and Nora Brito, are leaving to the Chilean justice system the decision to take up the case, which could set a precedent for punishing crimes involving sexual violence for political ends in the South American nation.

The crimes in question are still not enumerated in the Chilean Penal Code under the concept of torture but rather under "illegitimate pressure," and that is the way in which many of their perpetrators have managed to elude punishment.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/12/01/complaint-over-sexual-abuse-during-pinochet-dictatorship-proceeding-in-chile/

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ck4829

(35,042 posts)
1. Sexual violence seemed to be very common in Pinochet's regime
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:23 PM
Dec 2014

Colonia Dignidad, the military intelligence guy who posed as a leftist before the coup then became one of Pinochet's torture men who liked putting electrodes on nipples (I can't remember his name, probably for the best), torture camps...

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
3. It was the always lovely Paul Schäfer. Sorry to remind you! He was a monster.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:36 PM
Dec 2014

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Paul Schäfer, as a younger monster, and Nazi.

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Found the Devil in Colonia Dignidad
August 6, 2012

“Believe me, what’s been discovered so far is of a dimension that can only be explained in a military context, We’re talking about a large arsenal and I must stress that it’s going to end up being the largest ever found in private hands in the life and history of Chile,”

-Interior Minister Jorge Correa



The World is an amazing place and conspiracies are for those who cannot face the reality of Global Governance. Enter Paul Shafer: expatriot German national, Community leader, Sausage maker, Torturer & kiddy fiddler. Yet another pig in a lamb skin suit, peddling to the brown skin poor shiny white fake plastic.

Colonia Dignidad in Chile or more recently Villa Baveria was a post world war 11 concentration camp, torture factory, & religious cult foundered and managed by the nefarious Nazi party exponent Paul Shafer. Paul Shafer, like most German teenagers in the 30s and 40s, was a member of Hitler Youth siting the current Pope Ratzinger as one as his contemporaries. In 1959, Shafer was charged with molesting children in his care and he fled the country, apparently with over 70 loyal followers. In his native Germany Shafer got medical training and spent WWII as a doctor for the Luftwaffe. After the war, he became a Baptist preacher and established several charitable organizations and orphanages in his native Germany, founding the company, the Private Social Mission.

After his consequent arrest for child abuse Shafer fled the country, and wound up in Chile with 70 square acres of land. As a bonafide beneficiary of ODESSA no doubt he was privy to the Vatican rat lines, getting him out of the country and set up in Chile. Through deception Shafer left Germany with many of the same German children he’d been charged with molesting—their parents were told the kids were going on a “mission” and would only be gone a short time. Needless to say, those kids were never seen in Europe again.

More:
http://taboodada.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/633/

ck4829

(35,042 posts)
7. I don't think I can ever forget about Schafer. I remember the interrogator too
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 09:53 AM
Dec 2014

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It's Osvaldo Romo.

Really, really disturbing. Just as much as what happened in Colonia Dignidad. This piece of trash, I am sure that if the Pinochet regime never happened, he would have been a serial killer, grabbing women off the streets and torturing them before murdering them. Pinochet just gave him an outlet for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvaldo_Romo

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
2. Regarding this focus of torture, from Wikipedia: "Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile"
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:49 PM
Dec 2014

The Human Rights Violations during the Military government of Chile refer to all acts of human rights abuses, persecution of opponents, political repression and state terrorism committed by the Chilean armed forces and the Police, government agents and civilians in the service of security agencies, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile since September 11, 1973, until March 11, 1990.

~ snip ~
Detentions and Torture Centers[edit]

Intelligence agencies under Pinochet’s regime instituted secret detention and torture sites to conduct political repression. In total, Chile had 17 torture centers.[31] On occasion, prisoners were released after being confined and tortured. However, many detainees were also killed and “disappeared.”

Cuatro Alamos[edit]

Cuatro Alamos was a detention center that no one outside the DINA had access to, except personnel from other intelligence agencies. It was instituted in 1973, during the earliest phase of the regime. Life in Cuatro Alamos was relatively easier than it was in other detention sites. It consisted of twelve small cells, one large cell and staff offices. There were very few instances of torture within the walls of the prison.[30]

Londres No. 38[edit]

Londres No. 38 was a secret detention center located in downtown Santiago, where DINA members operated from 1973 until the end of 1974. This was one of the many sites that had been previously owned by leftist organizations. Prisoners at Londres No. 38 endured lengthy interrogation periods and continual humiliating treatment. Captors preferred to torture detainees by electrocuting them. Not only were the suspects incarcerated, but their relatives were also arrested. Family members underwent sexual abuse in the presence of their relatives. However, during the initial period, prisoners were still permitted to interact with one another and share information.[30]

Villa Grimaldi[edit]

Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, was DINA’s most important torture center that began operating in 1974. Prisoners were interrogated for long periods of time. Once people were incarcerated on a massive scale, new places were reconditioned to hold them. The “tower” was designated as a holding center for political prisoners. There was a water tank on the top floor of the building, which included ten tight spaces where prisoners were held. These spaces were so small that victims had to enter them by crawling on their knees. The tower also included a torture chamber, where prisoners were kept in isolation. Many of them were never seen again. Food was scarce and the conditions were extremely unsanitary.[30]

Physical Torture[edit]

One torture method which was very commonly used was the “grill” or "La Parilla."[disambiguation needed] In this torture, electricity was fed from a standard wall outlet through a control box into two wires each terminating in electrodes. The control box gave the torturers the option of adjusting the voltage being administered to the prisoner. The naked prisoner was stretched out and strapped onto a metal bedframe, or a set of bedsprings, and tied down. He or she was subjected to electrical shocks on several parts of the body, especially on sensitive areas like the genitals and on open wounds. The Valech Report includes a testimony of a Chilean man who was interrogated by prison captors. They took off his clothes and “attached electrodes to his chest and testicles. They put something in his mouth so he would “bite his tongue while they shocked him.”[32] In another method, one of the wires would be fixed to the prisoner (typically to the victim's genitalia) while another wire could be applied to other parts of the body. This caused an electrical current to pass through the victim's body, with a strength inversely proportional to the distance between the two electrodes. A smaller distance between the electrodes led to a stronger current and thus more intense pain for the prisoner. A particularly barbaric version of the "grill" was the use of a metal bunk bed; the victim was placed on the bottom bunk and on the top bunk, a relative or friend was simultaneously tortured.

Most prisoners suffered from severe beatings, and broken or even amputated limbs. At Villa Grimaldi, DINA forced non-compliant prisoners lie down on the ground. The captors ran over their legs with a large vehicle, and crushed the prisoners' bones.[33] The assailants also beat prisoners in the ear until they became deaf, and entirely unconscious; this torture method was called the "telephone."[34] Most of the acts of punishment were intended to severely humiliate the prisoners. At the Pisagua Concentration Camp, captors intimidated prisoners by forcing them to crawl on the ground and lick the dirt off the floors. If the prisoners complained or even collapsed from exhaustion, they were promptly executed.[35]

Sexual Abuse[edit]

General Pinochet’s regime carried out many gruesome and horrific acts of sexual abuse against the victims. In fact, several detention sites were solely instituted for the purpose of sexually tormenting and humiliating the prisoners. Discothèque (La Venda Sexy) was another one of DINA’s main secret detention centers. Many of those who “disappeared” were initially held in this prison. The prison guards often raped both men and women. It was at this prison where internal repression operations were centralized. Militants anally raped male prisoners, while insulting them, in an attempt to embarrass them to their core.[36]

Women were the primary targets of gruesome acts of sexual abuse. According to the Valech Commission, almost every single female prisoner was a victim of repeated rape. Not only would military men rape women, they would also use foreign objects and even animals to inflict more pain and suffering. Women (and occasionally men) reported that spiders and live rats were often implanted on their genitals. One woman testified that she had been “raped and sexually assaulted with trained dogs and with live rats.” She was forced to have sex with her father and brother—who were also detained.[37]

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet's_Chile

Agony

(2,605 posts)
5. i first heard about Sara de Witt's torture in Pilger's "War on Democracy"
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:21 PM
Dec 2014

"In making my film, The War on Democracy, I sought the help of Chileans like Roberto and his family, and Sara de Witt who courageously returned with me to the torture chambers at Villa Grimaldi, which she somehow survived. Together with other Latin Americans who knew the tyrannies, they bear witness to the pattern and meaning of the propaganda and lies now aimed at undermining another epic bid to renew both democracy and freedom on the continent. Ironically, in Chile, said to be Washington's "model democracy", freedom waits. The constitution, the system of electoral control and the designer inequality are all Pinocher's gifts from the grave."

The accounts of Sara's torture are hard enough to read about, to live through and with... that is unfathomable...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/victims-of-pinochets-police-prepare-to-reveal-details-of-rape-and-torture-1183793.html

Ronald Reagan disgusts me...

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
6. Yeah, let's get it out in the open.
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 08:01 AM
Dec 2014

Why is it these authoritarian types always have these bizarre sexual issues too? Passed along from generation to generation? It's hard for me to see a well-adjusted human being having any interest in this sort of thing. Yet these guys you can see it is a passion with them. They must be really fucked up.

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