(1 Sep 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile - 23 August 2023
1. María Paz Vergara, Executive Secretary of the Vicariate of Solidarity, opening a filing cabinet
HEADLINE: Church recorded abuses by Chilean dictatorship
2. Various of Vergara searching through files
ANNOTATION: Nearly 47,000 cases of human rights abuses committed by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet's are stored in this archive.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Santiago, Chile - September 1973
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3. Various of soldiers guarding exterior of stadium where they held detainees
ANNOTATION: Soon after the coup on September 11, 1973, the social workers took upon the task to comfort relatives of detainees who went missing.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile - 23 August 2023
4. Vergara opening a folder with information about a detained and disappeared person
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Paz Vergara, Executive Secretary of the Vicariate of Solidarity:
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"Residents of Maipo island were detained and the bodies of these farmers were found later. It was the first time that it was unequivocally demonstrated that the disappeared detainees had not only been detained and were real, but that they had been arrested, killed and buried clandestinely so that their bodies would never be found."
6. Files and folders
ANNOTATION: The archive has a legal fund compiling judicial files and affidavits on deaths, kidnappings, or torture.
7. Vergara searching through files
ANNOTATION: It also has a photographic collection, press clippings; and a media library of films on human rights.
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ARCHIVE: Santiago, Chile - September 1973
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9. Deposed President of Chile, Salvador Allende, greeting people
10. Various of presidential palace on fire
ANNOTATION: The organization investigated the crimes of a regime that ruled for 17 years, and which seized power from a democratically elected leader.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile - 25 August 2023
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Luisa Sepúlveda, former Executive Secretary of the Vicariate of Solidarity:
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"Sixty-eight percent of the victims were detained between September and December 1973. This demonstrates the brutality and expansion of the repression, and how society was notified of what was going to happen from then on."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Santiago, Chile - September 1973
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14. Soldiers guarding exterior of presidential palace
15. Detainees on a stadium
16. Various of soldiers guarding detainees inside a stadium
STORYLINE:
The archive of Chile's Vicariate of Solidarity recounts a hurtful episode in the country’s history: 47,000 denouncements of human rights violations during General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Pinochet took power after a military coup overthrew President Salvador Allende 50 years ago.
The documents were gathered between 1976 and 1992 by workers of the Vicariate, a human rights organization founded by Chilean Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez.
Led by social workers, lawyers, documentarians, and physicians, it provided legal, medical, and spiritual support to those affected by the regime.
Soon after the military coup of deposed President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973, Cardinal Silva Henríquez led efforts to create the Committee of Cooperation for Peace.
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