(27 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago - 27 October 2022
1. A room in the basement of the "Hospital Militar" where several people where tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
2. Electric power panel
3. Candles lit in memoriam of those who died there
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ximena Canales Fernandez, former detainee:
"I am here today because I was the one who promoted the recognition of this hospital as a site for memory. I was a first-person witness of the events that took place in this place. We were kidnapped together with my father, now deceased, my brother Rodrigo Fernando, eight-years-old, and myself, seven-years-old. The two of us were locked in the basement while they tortured my father and many other detainees."
5. Interior Minister, Carolina Tohá and Ximena Canales, hugging during the inauguration event
6. Ceiling pipe in basement
7. Stairs into the basement
8. Tohá leaving hospital
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carolina Tohá, Interior Minister of Chile:
"When we arrived in the car and I got out I became aware that the last time I entered this compound was February 6, 1974. It was the day of my father's birthday when we were authorized to visit him. He died on March 15 of that same year, five weeks later."
10. Picture of Jose Tohá Gonzalez killed in the "Hospital Militar" and the father of current Interior Secretary, Carolina Tohá
11. Pictures of people murdered in "Hospital Militar"
12. Flowers in a vase inside the torture room
13. Commemorative pictures on the walls of the basement torture center
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ximena Canales Fernandez, former detainee:
"When I felt a shot very close, I ran unexpectedly and saw a man who had just been executed. That image, together with him pretending to shoot us as they were playing with our lives, was engraved with blood in my soul and the scattered blood of the executed man. Manuel for me is not an NN (no name)."
15. Various of torture room in basement
16. Commemorative plate reads (Spanish) "National monument, memory site. Clandestine centre of detention in former Military Hospital"
STORYLINE:
A monument inside a former torture center located inside a hospital basement and used by Chilean police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet was inaugurated Thursday as a national memory site.
Chile's current Interior Minister, Carolina Tohá, whose father, José Tohá González (PS), former Minister of the Interior of then-President Salvador Allende, was arrested after Augusto Pinochet's military coup and was tortured for six months before dying there, officiated the ceremony.
"When we arrived in the car and I got out I became aware that the last time I entered this compound was February 6, 1974. It was the day of my father's birthday when we were authorized to visit him. He died on March 15 of that same year, five weeks later," she recounted.
Another victim, Ximena Canales Fernandez, told the audience how she, then 7 years old, and her 8 year-old-brother, were picked up along with their father and brought to the center where her father was tortured.
While in the detention center Canales Fernandez witnessed a man being executed, saying the incident was "engraved with blood in my soul."
The monument houses the torture rooms and various devices used on detainees were left as is for all the world to see.
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