In Chile they remember the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship In the afternoon of the new day of the 1973 government

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2024-09-08 23:21:07

Like every year, This Sunday before September 11date of Augusto Pinochet took a coup d’état against the socialist government Salvador Allende In 1973, Chileans took to the streets in a march commemorating the victims of the dictatorial regime.

This Sunday, some 3,500 protesters They went to the streets in Santiago to remember the dead and missing of State terrorism. After confrontations between the protesters and the police, some 23 participants were arrestedaccording to authorities.

“We went out to commemorate, remember and ask for our relatives; we justified them socially and politically (…) and we have managed to maintain the matter 51 years later,” he told the press. President of the Association of People Killed Politically, Alicia Lira.

During the tour in front of La Moneda Palace, the seat of the Government, water launch vehicles of the Chilean Police against the participants after some events with objects and images that were said, as reported by the local press.

Clashes continued between protesters and special forces agents on their way to the area General Mortuary of Santiagoa place designed for the memory of the victims of the comic regime, where the show comes to an end.

Secretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalveannounced that the government of Gabriel Boric will be sued with the State Protection Committee for building damage, and will be sued against two of those detained “for the use of Molotov cocktails and fireworks.”

“We will not allow the use of demonstrations either to alter public order or to commit crimes,” he said. Monsalve

Minister of Labor, Communist Jeannette Jaraseen in the show, told the media that “Those who commit certain crimes associated with exposure do not contribute anything to the cause of those seeking their relatives.”

The state you want to remember

This is the year 51st commemoration of the victims of the coup, which left a balance of 3,200 people killin which 1,469 were victims of forced disappearance. After years of searching, Only the remains of 307 have been found and identified.according to official figures.

Exhaustion Boric presented the National Research Program during the previous year’s ‘pilgrimage’, an unprecedented measure in which the State of Chile assumes, for the first time, the task of explaining the circumstances of disappearance or death, which until Now we are in charge of the organization. of family and human rights.

He also announced, a week ago, that he would ask to place “confidentiality imposed by law” on documents, evidence and after the Report of the National Commission on Political Prisons and Punishment, also known as Valech Commission, which stopped. access to information for 50 years, to improve the search for victims of tyranny.

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