Violations and disappearances, hidden repression and …

There was first beatings, humiliation and threats, but in the last few hours, torture and rape of women in Chile has become a reality. The exception state put in place by the government of Sebastián Piñera has resulted in the practices of dictatorship, including with regard to disappearances. Many women arrested until now have disappeared. In addition, those imprisoned in Santiago de Chile were undressed in front of the male staff, covered with their genitals and "put the tip of the rifle in their vagina while threatening to rape and kill them", as the police said. indicate the testimonies collected by the detention partners

The OAS Human Rights Commission (IACHR) has expressed concern over complaints lodged with the National Institute of Human Rights (NHRI) in the country. sexual violence, forced undressing and torture in the context of the arrest of protesters. "Chile must investigate these facts and punish them diligently, as well as on the actions of the police and the army that would have resulted in a disproportionate use of force against civilians." The use of force must be governed by the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality "expressed by the IACHR.

According to the figures of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) after the Sunday demonstrations, there had been 2138 inmates andamong them 243 boys, girls and adolescents and 407 women. Nine of them were undressed during a police procedure, in the events occurred between the municipalities of Santiago, Maipú, Iquique, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, Talca, Concepción, Valdivia, Temuco, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas. The majority of them accused the excessive use of force at the time of the detention, as well as the arrests of children, ill-treatment, beatings to the face and thighs, torture and torture. sexual assault, among other violations.

The lawyer of the Chilean Network Against Violence Against Women, Silvana del Valle, explained to The confusion that "Political sexual violence has been a continuum in our country and throughout the region in recent decades, since the police apparatus has been erected to be a patriarchal means." of the police ".

At the same time, a cross-sectional group of academics of different ideologies have called on the authorities to end the curfew and the state of emergency facing injuries and deaths attributable to men in uniform, in addition to asking lawyers to ensure respect for the rights of citizens. . As reported The third, 206 academics, deans and deans of the country's leading law schools signed a letter entitled "Facing the serious political and social crisis in Chile and the human rights violations that have occurred". The head of the letter states: "As professors and law professors from various faculties of the country and from various political positions we can not remain silent about the current situation in our country ". They then argue that they condemn "the serious violations of human rights found in various parts of the country. We have heard of very serious events that, over the days, show common patterns ".

They also call on lawyers and lawyers across the country to inform citizens of their rights and the means to exercise them.and which presuppose the free and rapid representation of those whose rights are violated. "We stress that we are already committed to ensuring that no act of violation of human rights remains unpunished," they concluded.

Infiltrated to order

The excesses produced by carabinier infiltrators also include the burning and looting of supermarkets. Several testimonies of rallies of riflemen were made viral, with images to support, as in a video in which we see police get off a civilian car to light a fire at a branch of the Banco de Credit. Investments (BCI).

"As in dictatorship, there are desperate mothers who seek their sons and daughters in court. There are several minors, "said Patricia, a psychologist interviewed by Ancap. Patricia says Chile in Piñera is kidnapping people, that they are being transported by trucks and that many of her relatives do not know where she is. Images of fires are already circulating where we can see corpses, to which the protective barrier wants to pass looters, "we have seen videos showing how bodies are thrown away. We all believe that it is the victims who throw the fires to erase all traces. "

The Chilean National Institute of Human Rights attempted yesterday to enter the central post office in Santiago, one of the largest centers of reference in public health, and discovered that the door was locked by chains preventing his entry. "We do not know what's going on but the health system is starting to stop. The ports also stop. We are at war"Patricia adds in the opposite direction to the sentence of the Chilean president. The column of Ancap (Alternative Communication News Agency) who lived the dictatorship of Pinochet is afraid to go out, but their children and grandchildren do it for them. "In the municipality of San Bernardo, south of Santiago, they entered schools and kidnapped girls and adolescents, and health centers found that many of them had been raped", said the media.

To the first person

Last Saturday, Pamela Maldonado, 31, was with her father and neighbors in the middle of the pot, a few meters from his apartment in the municipality of Santiago. Suddenly, a crowd of special forces surrounded his father. They were more than ten, they surrounded him in a circle and began to hit him, describes El Desconcierto.cl.

-I asked you to stop please, because my father is diabetic; He was sixty and they could kill him, but they pushed me with my shields and I could not reach him, "he recalls. Pamela, between her elbows, was whipped against a wall, while she could not see what was happening in the police car. She shouted at them where they were taking her father and they replied that the third police station in Santiago. Remember that a rifleman nicknamed Gallardo – whom we can see in one of the videos he's recorded – has punched his fist in his back and also placed in the van.

Inside, he saw how his father's nose was bleeding. I could hardly breathe. Pamela was in shock. He could also see other detainees beaten in very bad conditions. A second officer put wives on his father and intentionally pressed them. On the way to the police station, a carabinero started provoking the detainees, shouting against the Mapuches, "who hated the Communists" and even threatened Pamela with sexually assaulting her.

– Let's see if you like it! -He said to scare him.

At this point, she could not believe what was happening, just hugged her father so that they would not hit him anymore.

-So they went to see a bloody guy who screamed for kidney pain, looking for wounds, we knew that he was HIV-positive. At one point, I asked my father to clean my face with a bottle of water, but they drowned him with the mixture of water and blood. It was a torture – she recalls nervously. After passing through the Injury Verification Office, they were taken to the third police station in Santiago.

Once in the cell, he saw how the police had brought in a photographer, they had already hurt him, but they beat him again and only stopped him by l? intervention of an NHRI lawyer. They locked them up in makeshift cells, refused them blankets, became cold and had to be teased by the police themselves when they demanded flooded bathrooms filled with faeces. At 12:30, they were released. With the little clothes that they had left, they walked from San Martín Street to their home. This is not to be believed, and what will follow will be a request. We can not allow this to continue, what they did to us is totally illegal – says Pamela before ending the interview with this Chilean media.