as they ran through the streets with their taller friends. Never saw them in action until opening the link.
It's tremendous learning Negro Matapacos is internationally famous, now, as a symbol of the devotion and courage of the great downtown dogs in Santiago as they run with their friends to try to break through the determination of the fascist oligarchs to destroy all dissent permanently.
The young ones now are very aware it wasn't more than several decades ago the student protesters were being kidnapped right from their schoolrooms, their homes, taken off the streets, shot down in the streets, or dragged of to one of at least 11 separate torture centers in Chile, and the exceptionally hated ones kept in one of the torture ships like "La Esmeralda" which plied the waters off Chile's shores with the prisoners while their guests were tortured relentlessly, ferociously, sometimes to death throughout all the torture centers. The Pinochet people weren't slightly worried about being punished for their crimes against humanity, either.
Pinochet's torture ship sails into Sydney, sparking protests
Elle Hunt
Fri 4 Nov 2016 17.28 EDTLast modified on Fri 4 Nov 2016 18.31 EDT
The appearance of a Chilean naval vessel in Sydney Harbour, which had been used as a “torture chamber” by the Pinochet regime, has sparked protests from Chilean-Australians who say it should be removed from service.
The Esmeralda, a four-masted tall ship that is nearly 400ft long, is in Sydney as part of its 61st training cruise and has been docked at Garden Island since Thursday morning.
Considered a national symbol of Chile, it is used as a sail training vessel by the country’s navy and spends about half the year sailing around the world. It was last in Sydney in 2012.
But its tours have sparked controversy after a series of human rights reports revealed that the ship was used to detain victims of the Augusto Pinochet’s regime in September 1973.
A 1986 US Senate report suggesting that as many as 112 people – including 40 women – were held on the ship, with rape, electric shocks, mock executions and beatings among the crimes reportedly carried out on board.
A British-Chilean priest, Father Michael Woodward, who had been tortured on board, was taken off the vessel for treatment at a naval hospital but died of his injuries in transit.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/05/pinochets-torture-ship-sails-into-sydney-sparking-protests
Torture Ship Sparks Protests
BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 2015-09-01 17:18:00
About 60 people gathered in London on August 29 to protest the arrival of La Esmeralda. The vessel is a Chilean naval ship used during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship as a torture and interrogation center. The ship docked in London’s Canary Wharf.
Protestors call La Esmeralda a torture ship and see it as a symbol of Chilean life under military rule. The Ministry of Defense contends that the vessel’s arrival is symbolic of the U.K.’s strong relationship with Chile.
Pinochet displaced Salvador Allende in a bloody military coup in 1973, and more than 3,000 people were killed during his 17-year rule. Reports from Amnesty International and the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission describe La Esmeralda as a floating jail and torture chamber for Pinochet’s political prisoners.
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https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/torture-ship-sparks-protests
See the Wikipedia regarding Pinochet's human rights violations, starting at "State-sponsored torture and repression"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet%27s_Chile
It mentions there were 17 separate torture centers, actually. 17 individual places where people were thrown into the jaws of hell, and some never walked back out.
Osvaldo Romo, Pinochet's most infamous torturer:
Osvaldo Romo Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvaldo_Romo
Romo Interview with tv reporter in Miami:
These young protesters are totally aware of what has happened in their country, in their cities, in their streets not so long ago. Maybe some of their relatives were tortured or murdered. Of course they are far more serious than mere photos can reveal, as they know they are against a President who has supported Pinochet, even put some of Pinochet's own administration officials in his own cabinet. They have so LITTLE to use to wage their protests, but they need to do it, just as those who lived or died earlier, fighting the same murderous greed and power obsession, right where it never really was defeated. They clearly are doing it for humanity, as they won't necessarily see any immediate benefits themselves, they do it for the future.
Thank you for the imagery, and the feelings which need to be activated repeatedly, and never forgotten. The struggle is everyone's who hopes to see the end of monsters.
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