Human rights campaigners protest over Chile’s Esmeralda ‘prison ship’ at Millwall Docks
Human rights campaigners protest over Chile’s Esmeralda ‘prison ship’ at Millwall Docks
11:23 29 August 2015
Mike Brooke
Chilean naval training vessel once said to have been used as a “prison torture ship” by the Pinochet regime is facing protests today at the Millwall Docks in east London.
British priest Michael Woodward was one of “at least 140 detainees” imprisoned aboard the Esmerelda who vanished during the Pinochet dictatoriship 40 years ago, members of the London-based Memoriaviva human rights group claim.
Fr Woodward’s body was never recovered, despite four decades of campaigning by his family and ex-patriot members of the protest group who are turning up to demonstrate against the “goodwill” visit by the Chilean Navy.
“The Esmeralda is a living monument to atrocities of Pinochet’s dictatorship,” the group’s Jimmy Bell told the East London Advertiser.
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