Threats From the testimonies of people who suffered political imprisonment collected by this Commission, a significant proportion said they were victims of threats, which were received when they were in situations of radical vulnerability.
By means of intimidation threat by warning against the serious evils and dangers posed to the person concerned or others relating to the same, if not the wishes of their captors.
meet certain requirements, the threat is a crime in itself, signed by the Chilean Penal Code. The serious threat is considered a method of torture causes severe psychological suffering in the detainee.
be considered torture, death threats, forced disappearances and application of some other kind of torture (usually physical) in the person of the detainee or family nearby. The threat, as a method of torture was widely used throughout the period covered by the mandate of the Commission. It resorted to intimidation to undermine the strength of the respondent, either before or during interrogation, going so far as to stop the spouse and children, including minors, for display to the detainee while he was warned they would be tortured, killed or missing .
also learned of cases in which the security agencies raided the home of the detainee and obtained recordings or photographs of their families, which were used to expose the detainee and forcing his statement. There were also testimonials arrests of close relatives of persons wanted by security agencies in order to pressure them to surrender.
Man arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Telecommunications Regiment Curico, Region VII: [...] opportunities are kept me blindfolded and hooded other opportunities, pushing me to work and blame other people or agencies at that time had a problem for them, I was told that if my family would not speak arrested, falling problems for my wife.
Man, arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment at Fort Infantry Müller Marina de Las Salinas, V Region: Naked: I was beaten by hand and foot infantry commands. I was beaten with a machete. It gave me power over the whole body, especially on the genitals, anus, etc. These children were shouting commands me trained in Panama. I fainted twice, I received many blows to the ears, deep burns to the anus. I would not
cried out alive [...]. Since morning I was transferred (dragged by the hair) to a meeting room where I stated (semi nude) to the group, sitting in front and looking at them, something that could do well and I had both eyes badly swollen and bleeding from head and all the body was beaten. They were told: "Here is your boss, so try these dogs
" [...].
Man, arrested in August 1974. Account of his imprisonment in the First Police Station
of Calama, II Region: ... Later we were taken to Calama, chained and martyred, as the most dangerous extremists.
Here in Calama (First Station) we detained for three days when they beat us and threatened us, every time they did, with our remaining few days of life because we would be killed. We saw death pass everywhere!
Women, detained January 1975. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: listened with horror how they knew each of my steps, making them qualified to treat a whore many times as wanted.
cried under the cotton bandage, I was really scared, I told all the time who had disappeared without trace and never see my two children. They knew their names, the schools where they were, the times of entry and exit. I could not believe it.
Mock execution
The mock execution is the pretense or imitation of the execution of a person by the discharge of rifles firing commissioner for that purpose.
In this case, however, including mock executions committed with other weapons too, like machine guns, pistols or revolvers. These exercises induce the victim to experience the imminence of death as a fact.
The Commission received testimony that referred to in this method of torture, used from the same September 11, 1973 until the end of military rule, which was massive and systematic implementation. Usually, the mock execution was accompanied by a staging that sought to give credence to the experience, thus preventing the suspect arrested fictional character proceeding. The victim could be carried from her room of confinement to a secluded spot where he was handcuffed and blindfold or hooded, and then instruct the platoon who actually fired. In some cases
blanks were used, although in most cases, they were real. The difference was that instead of pointing to his body, shot into the air, on the sides or on top of the victim.
As collateral damage of this method of torture include what happened with the inmates in their cells, barracks and rooms. Since only heard the shots, thought the person had died cause of the shooting, printing prolonged by the practice of not immediately reimburse the alleged shot the place of detention. The transit of other prisoners to induce the mock execution, the prisoners left behind to believe that his turn to die inexorably approaching. Record is kept of prisoners being subjected to more than a sham, its victims have always believed that in this particular occasion there was no pretense.
Man arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention in the police station in Puerto Aysen Region XI: [...] I was taken to the wall blindfolded, once there they told me to look one last time and saw my other very poor fellow, hunched and dejected. Blindfolded me again and told me if I wanted something more, I said yes, then talk as fast as we have little time I answered. I said, "I will die for my ideas and I do not regret it, get me out the band I want to die like a man" yelled "can not." It took several minutes, hours, do not know the time. I heard the voice of the firing order and the shooting.
deep silence, then a few steps, silence again, not knowing where I was. I tried to smell, I dared not speak, except to play, was in these digressions that must have been in fractions of seconds, when I hear the dry voice of the military I yell "asshole you saved, the other will not escape!".
Man, arrested in September 1974. Account of his incarceration at the Estadio Fiscal de Punta Arenas, XII Region: It met all of the ritual of an execution. Built
early crickets on the feet and hands, a priest (I think false, inquiries I did later), your prayers and litanies, indicating the few minutes that I stayed in this mundane world and my encounter with God. Kept telling me to confess my sins, I always said the same thing, I have nothing to regret, what I said on one occasion: "The Lord loves you receive with the doors open. "I sat in what surely was the traditional bench. sold anything he could see. The drama was put to silence, there I felt some shivering. I asked for my last wish and offer him first thing I want to see my children and my wife. That's impossible, we give you another chance. Well, I said, you shoot me without bandages, and he answered one of them, "the pearl we want to know." They felt a hunch that told me not be the end. Silence again, that noise sounds typical of the past of gun and rifle fire. As the body feel nothing, nothing hurts. It is about a soldier and I put the gun to his head, or can also be a finger, and says, "I saved in a burlesque "..., ..." I turn to my
give the coup de grace, and I must say that I have less than 30 seconds to live. " A shot in the ear makes me feel I'm alive again. The military says finally, "was spared this unfortunate, retórnenlo its isolation."
Man, arrested in July 1980. Account of his journey from the headquarters to an enclosure Borgoño unknown, Metropolitan Region: The trip lasted about an hour, maybe more. One person he opened a kind of gate at the end of a dirt road. Then I fell and my feet were shackled, I went a pick and shovel I was blindfolded and made to walk a bit and made me remove the bandage. They were all behind me with flashlights, it was night, I took down a small hill, they felt cries of birds, not sure if they were seagulls.
The field was very muddy. They offered me to say something before they kill me, I replied that I had nothing else to say. Then with the pillory and the blade made me dig a hole about 50 inches deep, one meter wide and two meters long. Every so often made me stop and I offered to talk to save my life, I always answered that he had nothing to add. The ground itch was not hard, it was as muddy and was softened by rain. At the conclusion of the work, made me lie down in the pit side, I heard someone spent bullet from a gun and put it in my temple. "Run the gun back better because if you are not going to jump brains out."
Before I get into the pit, I had removed the shackles from the ankles, and told me I was going to tie with wire [...]. After a while, I took the hole, I was handcuffed, shackled and sold and pushed me back to the car [...]
humiliation and harassment
This Commission received abundant evidence of humiliation and abuse. These were applied
more frequently during the days immediately following the coup. The names are grouped under the deal the constraints to the detainee whose sole purpose is to impair its dignity as a human being, hurt his honor, his honor and pride. They are intended to cause psychological damage or mental illness.
Practices such as forced ingestion of debris, not only caused an
mental suffering resulting from ill treatment of the human condition, but occasionally also generate physical damage caused infections and diseases contracted because of the ingested material.
methods of torture described in this chapter involve forms of humiliating or harassing a person. However, have been included at this point, humiliation or harassment are not directly related to other methods of torture.
The main behaviors that scored Commission
humiliation and harassment, are: • Require
eat organic waste (feces, urine, and vomiting
human or animal) and fluids offensive, etc., By mouth or nose.
• Throwing excrement and filth on the detainee.
• Forcing the detainee to kiss the boot of a military or police officer.
• Forcing the detainee to crawl on the floor amid taunts and blows.
• Forcing the detainee to apologize, to renounce their political views, to express loyalty or recognize the superiority of the military or police officers.
• Forcing the detainee to insult himself or his companions.
• Spreading the prisoner blindfolded on routes with obstacles, to stumble and fall to the ground.
• Forcing the detainee to sing hymns or political slogans amid jeers.
• Insults, curses and taunts serious the offense of injury.
• Cut the detainee's cropped hair and walking in public places.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment Contulmo Tenure, Region VIII: [...] dated September 13, 1973, being the half past seven came home from my parents a police patrol, who with great violence broke my gunpoint father and brothers with their weapons, pinning. Then came into my room. Ordered me to put my hands behind their heads [...] [...] I was getting up he was wearing only pants. Then I took to the streets barefoot and shirtless in this tour [...]
spent looking for four others ... all being taken to the Tenure Contulmo, there was the beginning of the ordeal. In the stable had some rings attached to it, where I practically hung with folded hands being on his toes. While in this position began to beat me with rifle butts. I asked other colleagues and as I said not knowing what you asked, still beating. The truth, I do not calculate the time spent in the beatings. [...] Lt. appeared asking if he had spoken with swear words. The answer [...] out that I have not said anything. The lieutenant ordered to bring manure from the stables and water in a bottle. Then I asked about the same and as responsive as I bend back the neck and hit my stomach and introduced dung in my mouth. Then pour water for me to swallow the entire contents [...]. This happened one, two, three, ten times, I do not know. Then they left me there, listening to the screams and moans of other prisoners.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Regiment Chillán, VIII Region: [...] fed me beans and chickpeas with maggots and feces smell unbearable, but I was hungry to eat.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his confinement at the 4th Precinct of Concepción, Region VIII: In the questioning made me sit with fingers on the table, spreading, while I rested a machine gun to his head. I was told I would not live the enclosure. I was severely beaten on several occasions. About 21 hours after that day, we were training all of us in the police station, about 35 people between men and women. We were forced to sing the National Anthem, shouting "Long live the armed forces" and to lead to prison they made us go through the middle of two rows of police officers who beat us passing. I then hit three police [...].
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment AFB El Bosque, Región Metropolitana me out of the gym [...] blindfolded for questioning lead me to where I have to undress for later sit in a chair tied, where I applied electric current in the head, heart and testes, also after the end of torture in charge asks me to excrement passing threatening face the next day will be harder if I decide to speak, threatens to shoot me and take my family stopped.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention at Police Station in Lota, Bío Region: I was held incommunicado and tortured for four days, hooded and blindfolded, beaten with rifles, rifle butts, kicking and submersion in water drum, made me roll down a ladder. Incommunicado and in position of abdominal cube filled with urine and droppings with hands behind their heads.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Second Police Station in Chillan, Bío Region: "... I was beaten by about eight policemen, one with an iron bar broke my nose and parts of the face (eyebrows and lips) in the cell were wet with hoses. Then, on the way to jail, we went back to paste and cut their hair and beards with a knife.
Man arrested in November 1973. The story of his imprisonment in the Country Prisoners Chacabuco, II Region: In Chacabuco was forced to pick up the droppings hands [...]. I was also beaten on the soles of bare feet with a stick just because my middle name is Augustus.
Women, detained in February 1975. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: It forced me to make my needs with the door open while the guards looked at me and taunted me, forced me to sit on the toilet with remnants of feces and urine and no to let me clean a little cup or clean before sitting down when I had done my needs. Requirement to control the body so that urine and faeces had to leave the body at times set for them. In Otherwise, they threatened that if the body was not controlled, would force you to eat your excrement or drink your urine. Such threats
quickly learned to believe them, when I witnessed this situation with a prisoner who failed to control his diarrhea. Inexplicable way my body adapted to this requirement [...].
Man, arrested in May 1976. Account of his confinement at home, with mention of his subsequent transfer to the site of the former church, Providence, Antofagasta, II Region: And I have to go outside, cold, lonely and quiet. I turn to the cabin, sudden laughter of my companions that I gently pushed without and show appreciation to the back of the truck. "Look at the pearl! Do you creís in the Office, old wimp? back no more, lying on the ground, güeón! And near the bank," so that you Hagai place your cameras and callaíto! Tie him tápenle hands and sight! ... These are believed Jutras death ... The house has the upeliento
! And the little woman tennis! Where get it, being so Reviejo? ... and visit other night, left alone the dove "....[..].
stripping off your clothes and stand naked behaviors have been reserved for
private sector, within a context of intimacy. So
coerce someone to undress or take her clothes off by force
forcing him to stand naked in front of strangers
manifestly hostile intentions, is a way to add to torture the person in a state of extreme vulnerability and helplessness. Join this that the person is intimidated and deprived of their liberty and naked against their will while being subjected to illegal interrogation, and that under such conditions imposed by the fear of being subjected to sexual insults, and the naked body used to be exposed to other forms of condition, such as hitting or application of electricity.
The Commission received many testimonies of people stripped violently coerced to strip naked and forced to stand naked during interrogation. The practice of forcing detainees to strip naked, sometimes hitting people and handcuffed and violently ripping the clothes was common among soldiers and police, coming to be an almost routine procedure for the security agencies.
Man arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Infantry Regiment N ° 4 Cochrane, Region XII: [...] immediately ordered me undress and took me to a military training camp with eight infants supported kicking and beating five dogs were biting me legs and he fell also hurt my shoulder.
Man, arrested in November 1974. Account of his detention at Police Station
Collipulli, Region IX: The Police I was subjected to repeated interrogations and mistreatment of me, even told me to undress completely as a way to humiliate and demean that night left me in the dungeon.
Women, detained in February 1975. Account of his imprisonment in the Silva Palma Headquarters of the Navy, in Valparaiso: The interrogation was stripped and tied to a chair giving me punched in the head, chest and abdomen. I current applied to the temples, nipples, tongue, genitals and ankles. On one occasion I was taken to an emergency department of Naval Hospital for severe abdominal pain and stomach, as well as tachycardia. The last day to shower could be revised by the International Red Cross.
Women arrested in May 1975. Account of his imprisonment in the barracks at Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: Upon arrival at the site I pulled the truck to the ground and then subjected me to interrogation by [name withheld] who disqualified me verbally. Then they took me to the "houses Corvi" (boxes where you could only stand). I always maintained the view blindfolded, hands bound and naked. I applied the electric grid, was a victim of sexual abuse tocaciones and many beatings and mock execution at the end of the pool.
assaults and sexual violence
Sexual assault is to force a person by physical or psychological, to do or suffer sexual acts. The attacks of this type are legally forbidden and, meeting certain requirements, they identify with various offenses as a serious attack on freedom of people, adversely affecting the healthy development of their sexuality and personality. In sum, when a detainee was sexually violated by an official or by a particular
their service, these attacks constitute a form of torture on victims to cause serious psychological distress, usually accompanied by physical pain can lead to consequences.
The Commission received many testimonies of people who, in his capacity as political prisoners, were sexually assaulted. Many of the detained women who were victims of torture suffered some form of sexual assault in varying degrees. The Commission also heard testimony from men who were victims of some type of sexual assault. It is also common, the sexual assault perpetrated against minors. At the end of this chapter includes a description and deeper analysis on sexual violence against women.
below sets out the main types of sexual assault recorded in the testimony heard by this Committee:
• Thousands of people reported being victims of verbal aggression
sexual content, threats of violation of their person or family
his, of coercion to undress for the purpose of sexual arousal of the agent simulation of rape, having been forced to hear or witness the sexual torture of other detainees or their relatives, of have been photographed in obscene positions, all in a context of extreme vulnerability.
• Another significant number of people reported touching;
insertion of objects into the anus or vagina, rape in all its forms
(oral penetration, vaginal, anal) repeated violations, collective or
sodomitical, have been forced to develop sexual activities with another detainee or relative. There are also cases that have been referred to the introduction of rats, spiders and other insects in the mouth, anus or vagina. Constan
testimonies of people forced to have sex with
dogs specially trained for this task. On the other hand, imports
record that most victims of sexual violence reported assaults and serious and varied effects. It is interesting to note that many of the victims, had no specialized support to address these consequences, especially during the early years of repression. Many people who came before this Committee noted that never before had dared to relate these experiences.
Male, juvenile, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Engineer Regiment of Green Gables, V Region: I was led into a room, upon entering the smell of blood I was sorry to hear [...] individuals who spoke, one of them I untied her hands and ordered me to undress me, I said please do not, but then I was violently stripped, leaving only the hood up, put me on a stretcher tied hands and feet with legs open I felt a very strong light that nearly burned my skin.
heard that these guys were laughing, then a young man began to give me strokes with his penis on my body, I said that I liked carrying another man wrote things about my body with a pencil pasta. Then came the questioning
[...] then ordered me to put power in the breasts, vagina and knees [...].
stopped downloads After a while, while talking among themselves felt. Again resumed the interrogation, this time I said I was connected to the [...] truth machine for every answer he gave a whistle sounded on this machine, because I said I was lying on [...] whistle of this device has become a hell [...] came back blows and electric shocks when I was almost unconscious lifted the hood to the nose, I put a glass in his mouth making me swallow a liquid, did not know what happened to me until the next day I returned to camp. In the area I was greeted by the officer who saw me [...] said if falls over the tables would not want this to happen to her daughter, she asked me what had happened, but then called [...] military nurses felt pain in the vagina and around my body was severely damaged without [...] [...]. defecation
Women arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention at the National Stadium, Metropolitan Region: Being pregnant I was tortured, raped and molested by a group of military personnel.
Women arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Regiment Arica, La Serena, IV Region: [...] five months pregnant, was detained and taken prisoner. I
a half months in solitary confinement in the jail of the Good Shepherd, and subject to the Arica Regiment to harassment and torture, among which I, as a complaint, include: [...] urged to have sex with the promise of an early release , forced to undress, caressed her breasts and threatened to receiving nightly visits from the interrogator, electric shocks in the back, vagina and anus, fingernails and feet were torn, beaten repeatedly with sticks with plastic heads rifles in the neck mock execution, did not kill me but I had to listen as
bullets whistled around me and eat obliged to take medication, injected into the vein with pentothal, under the stern warning that it would be mesmerized as the only means of telling the truth, placed on the floor with her legs spread, mice and spiders were installed and arranged in the vagina and anus, I felt I was bitten, woke up in my own blood is forced two doctors prisoners to have sex with me, both declined, the three were hit simultaneously in unnatural; driven to places where he was repeatedly raped countless occasions that he should swallow the semen of the perpetrators, or was sprinkled with ejaculation on the face or the body; forced to eat excrement while being beaten and kicked in the head, back and waist; received countless blows electricity [...].
Man, arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment in Maquehua Air Base, Region IX: In particular testicles hit me with a kind of rule, which caused me excruciating pains. All this, as long as I was naked and blindfolded. During the torture process also made me a stick through the year, the product of which had caused bleeding tears
me for several days, both anal and oral.
Man, arrested in August 1973. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Región Metropolitana I was introduced [...] blunt in the year, I broke the fibers, and often bounced blood at stool.
Women arrested in November 1974. Account of his detention on the DINA Venda Sexy, Region Metropolitana: [...] two men and a woman for me. I ran to the office of chief medical officer to leave evidence of my arrest.
Indeed, asked to be identified and they showed their badges as agents of the DINA. I took my apron service without me time to take my clothes. I climbed into a van by the DINA, they put a bandage over his eyes, beat me [...] I was left alone in an office sitting on a low bench height, provided with blinders on. I spent a long time there. Then they made me climb a ladder, we come to a room where they asked me to undress. There was a person who typed my ID. Then I installed
electrodes on the head and hands and sent me [...] electricity repeatedly came a doctor who examined me [...] gynecologically rape, masturbation on my body, I photographed naked, all interrupted electric shock.
witnessed torture of other
The Commission met numerous testimonies of people who were forced to see or hear the torture of other victims. Security agencies adopted the practice, aggravating the method itself, to force the detainee to the torture of family members as spouses, children, parents, etc.., In order to extract statements or confessions.
This method allows the detainee incorporate the elements of projection rationality to what can happen if you do not cooperate, as an advance or strengthen the awareness of their status as victims, in a state of absolute helplessness against torture. The most common methods of torture used against sexual assault were family members, the application of electricity and shock. Constan also cases of detainees being tortured simultaneously
with their families.
Women arrested in September 1973. Account of his confinement at the 4th Precinct of Talca, Region VII: Upon entering the station, almost at dusk, I heard piercing screams coming from somewhere inside the police station. The most profound terror that can sense a human being came over me, recognizing that the screams were my brother [...].
Man, arrested in October 1973. Account of his detention at the naval base of Talcahuano (El Morro), Region VIII: I was locked in a shed where often I listened and watched as other girls were raped by some university or just liceanas, which caused me much disorder, the powerless to do anything, this was repeated many times during the time I was arrested.
Man, arrested in December 1973. Account of his detention at the Naval War Academy (HQ Silva Palma), V Region: During my detention, almost permanently, I was forced to listen to the torture and interrogation of my father.
In attempts to intervene against the torture of my father, I was beaten by guards with fists and legs on the floor and against walls.
Women, detained September 1974. Account of his imprisonment in the home of José Domingo Cañas DINA No. 1315, Metropolitan Region: In José Domingo Cañas was hit in various parts of the body. Again, I was groped and forced to witness the torture of my husband. I was stripped naked and tied to a metal cot in which I was beaten. She was pregnant with 6 months of gestation.
Man, arrested in June 1975. Account of his detention on the grounds of the former DINA Divine Providence Church, Antofagasta, II Region: That night they took me to witness how interrogated another partner. They had stretched and tied to a wire mesh base and urged him to recognize, by not doing it, given electric shocks. Tired of his refusal chose another tactic was to put me in place and the fellow standing next to the bed frame with
connected to both cables. I went back to his cell, before which I got wet.
Man, arrested in December 1975. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: [...] after incite injuriously to collaborate and to my silence brutally beat me using fists, feet and a blunt object for several minutes before my mother and my wife. My mother was taken apart (later released) and golpiza continuó sobre mi esposa. Ofuscado por nuestro silencio [...] ordenó "¡a la parrilla!" [...] me sacaron a un patio donde me dejaron tendido mientras me hacían escuchar los gritos de mi compañera que torturaban en una pieza aledaña. Tras una media hora de mantenerme escuchando los tormentos de mi esposa, durante los cuales me intimaban para evitarle sufrimientos [...] me desnudaron a la fuerza, me introdujeron en una pieza con catres metálicos de dos pisos, me amarraron a uno de ellos, me conectaron
cables y electrodos hechos con ganchos y llaves metálicas a los pies, las manos, narices, ojos, encías, ano, pene y testículos, y comenzaron a aplicar descargas eléctricas producidas por a hand-cranked dynamo. [...]
Women arrested in January 1979. Account of his detention in the police station Vallenar, III Region: [...] took me to a courtyard, where, with kicks and hands tied me to a chair, put me in front of a torture chamber where I had seen being tortured one by one to five colleagues who stood beside me while they were savagely tortured brutally kept beating me being strapped into the chair, I demanded to speak because if I was not talking going to disappear one by one, insulted me in a way that no one can imagine
, as I spoke they turned the chair where I was tied and stunned when they were beaten and fired a shot into the air for me to believe he was dead, and so was the case with all other partners, while I was being brutally beaten and tied to that damn chair.
Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette is a reckless gamble that ritualized practice of suicide.
is to shoot in the head a loaded gun (or pretends to be) with a single bullet, not knowing where in the drum or nut is housed it. The likelihood of dying in this game, but the detainee practiced against their will, is the essence of this method de tortura. Pese a no haber sido empleado masivamente, la Comisión recibió testimonios sobre su aplicación.
Hombre, detenido en septiembre de 1973. Relato de su reclusión en el Estadio Nacional, Región Metropolitana: Fui obligado a jugar a la ruleta rusa, con una pistola apuntada en la sien.
Hombre, detenido en octubre de 1973. Relato de su reclusión en el Regimiento de San Felipe Yungay, V Región: De Carabineros me pasaron al Regimiento Yungay [...], en donde recibí golpes de puños, culatazos y jugaron a la ruleta rusa.
Presenciar fusilamientos de otros detenidos
The Commission received testimonies of prisoners forced to witness the execution of fellow prisoners, often acquaintances, friends or colleagues. No need to dwell on the suffering caused by such practices, which allow the detainee to experience the radical uncertainty concerning their fate. In some precincts
underwent aggravating mode of throwing on the prisoners, immobilized and lying on the floor, dying bodies of those who had just been executed. It should be noted that dozens of people who gave their testimony to this Committee have seen in processes of political executions.
Women arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention at the National Stadium, Metropolitan Region: [...] We drew on the field half hour for us to see real people being killed or drill, but more and more things for us to talk. What did that mean? "Inventing?
Man, arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment at the military compound of Cerro Chena, Región Metropolitana: Apart from anything experienced to me, I also saw how men and women killed in front of me and buried in the same places where we had [...].
Confinement conditions subhuman
Prison is not in itself a method of torture. Aggravating prison conditions, such as incommunicado detention, nor can they be considered as a method of torture per se, but involve a greater infringement of the rights of the person, even if responding to an opinion of the competent judicial authority the framework of due process. Admitted to the above, it should be noted that the confinement of a person in a cell designed or decorated with the express purpose of causing physical or psychological suffering, is seen as a torture method.
The Commission met numerous testimonies concerning the confinement of this kind. The main characteristics of the cells or places where people were confined affected are:
• Confinement in cells where the detainee was deprived of all contact
with another person, for a period could be extended in some cases even months, causing mental conditions specific to the sensory and social deprivation. There are stories of people who were held in narrow cells, with no lighting, no windows or other ventilation system and no toilets, thus forced to urinate and defecate in the same place, while they were deprived of water and occasionally, they state food supplied decomposition, if not outright supported them forced fasting.
• Solitary confinement in cells with extremely small size, real
cages did not allow to stand or sit, forcing the person concerned to carry awkward positions during the day and night for prolonged periods. • Enclosures collective
cells in holds of ships or in cages, people must remain
crowded on each other and without
to relieve themselves.
• In the first months of political repression there are testimonies concerning situations or collective solitary confinement in cells where there were animals and insects, such as rodents, spiders, and other inexpensive.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention on the island
Quiriquina, Region VIII: [...] stripped us and put us in a cage carrying the same style as the lions from a circus, but the difference was that surrounded us was barbed wire, we were on [...]. display
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his incarceration at Cerro Moreno Air Base, II Region: [...] beatings continued for a long time and after a few hours, finally ceased to maltreat us. We locked in a cage with barbed wire, lying on the floor, naked and outdoors. It was early morning, very cold. Tiritábamos under the cool breeze of the desert. Inside the cage we were heaped upon each other, so any attempt to accommodate pain provocábamos a colleague.
One of them had broken his collarbone. Unfortunately I was in an awkward position, causing further pain.
Man arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention in the police station Peumo, Region VI: [...] I was arrested at home by police, was at the Police Station Peumo until October 4, 1973, which put me in a cell of 2x2, there were too many people, which was full of excrement.
Man, arrested in October 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Constitution Maritime Management, Region VII: As two soldiers drove me, was a bundle bleeding, semi-conscious, did not know when I removed the handcuffs. I was thrown into a dark dungeon. Lying on the floor in almost total darkness, tried to clarify the ideas in my mind, remember that in my journey through life met military officers and NCOs of outstanding human qualities and never suffered an abuse, on the contrary, to this day I remember with admiration and affection
their names and grades. I lost track of time, my body was a wreck, still bleeding from the mouth, blood was slipping into my clothes, but could see nothing, had part of my teeth loose or broken and a loud sound, ear piercing through me, was not lose consciousness, made efforts to see something suddenly struck me incredible fear, I thought I was blind. I wanted to get up and my body seemed disconnected from my mind, I think that I fell asleep or unconscious, do not know how long.
Women, detained in February 1975. Story of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: [...] [...] I was subjected to solitary confinement in the tower of Villa Grimaldi, in a small cell with no ventilation, no light, no door and a hole on the bottom and out, crawling.
deliberate deprivation of livelihoods
The Commission received many testimonies that show that living conditions in detention facilities were very poor, a situation that looked worse to be qualified as centers detention places not designed for that purpose. Also deprived deliberately stopped the basic means of life as the minimum shelter, water and food. The situation could include lack of sanitation. When deprived of basic means of life is prolonged and cause unnecessary suffering, harming the health of the person, as a method of torture designed to cause physical and moral weakness of the detainees, in order to punish or diminish resilience thereof.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention at Police Station
Chol-Chol, Region IX: Within the cell was dark and had a bad smell. The piece was about two by two meters, we were each other. I also remember that did not stop for any reason to go to the bathroom, we did our needs there. Many vomitábamos of pain and the awful smell that was there.
Man, arrested in May 1974. Account of his imprisonment in the Regiment Arica, La Serena, IV Region: During this dwell time [15 days in the regiment] could not change clothes or bathe or shower me any .
sleep deprivation or interruption
Sleep is a physiological need to repair effects not be satisfied that consistently produces alterations in mood and even the perception of reality, and a generalized body weakness.
prevent a detainee or interrupt sleep deliberate on several occasions during one or several days, is a method of torture, due to physical damage and psychological distress it causes. According to the testimonies of people close to the Commission, these practices took on various forms of application, having been the most persistent: keep the detention center illuminated with floodlights, cause noise nuisance, hit the detainee time to time.
Man arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the
Marine Detachment No. 4 Cochrane, Region XII: [...] Back in the Cochrane Regiment I spent a week with no let me sleep, without food and drinking water, also a soldier with bayonets fixed point, with instructions not to let me sleep, lean, sit or lie on the floor. [...].
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his detention in the police station in Salamanca, IV Region: After my arrest I was transported to the local police station and subjected to endless interrogations by about four or five days.
These interrogations were, I have the impression made by police and all of them accompanied by beatings with hands, feet and various objects, allowing a few hours sleep in dungeons filled with water and only in underwear. Also, for my disabled condition was teased and extreme physical and mental abuse.
Man, arrested in November 1975. Account of his imprisonment in the Regiment of Copiapo, III Region: then transferred to the Regiment of Copiapo (sold), tortured by long days and nights with short intervals, with punches, kicks, running into multiple parts body (nude), blows to the ears with both hands (phone), remained standing long hours, wet, beaten, etc., in order to prevent sleep.
Man, arrested in November 1979. Account of his imprisonment in an unknown site of the CNI, II Region: As the vehicle descended the CNI could not know where to put me to bring my eyes blindfolded. By accessing this site, I was immediately subjected to continuous torture for five days, including being deprived of sleep and subjected almost too humiliation.
Choking
Another method of torture he was subjected to a significant number of people is the attempt of suffocation, which was to prevent or hinder breathing.
hereby sought physical and psychological suffering caused by the confrontation with the possibility of drowning.
The most recurrent cause choking detainees were
• Immerse the detainee's head under water until its imminent asphyxiation cause shortness of breath, repetitive action all the time that the officers deemed necessary. This method has been called a submarine or underwater wet. Its application preceded, accompanied and succeeded the interrogations, as was the view the police or military, and he resorted to a softening indistintamentecomo preliminary or as a technique to extract information. An even more severe form of choking was to place the victim upside down in a drum with water. There are allegations that the dives were made in water mixed with other substances that exacerbated the suffering.
• Place the detainee's head in a plastic bag tied tightly around the neck to prevent the entry of air, causing suffocation after oxygen was depleted. Dry submarine called, this method was employed, as the case registered by the Commission mainly in the time immediately following the coup.
• Other allegations of torture referred to suffocating effects of supplying large quantities of water by mouth or nose to fill the stomach asphyxia occurred during prolonged or continuous supply of water or at the time of filling the stomach.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his incarceration at the Detention Center of Carabineros de Valdivia, X Region: I had for a week or so with all kinds of torture where they had a pretty deep hole with water and animal droppings and then I plunged upside down [ ...].
Male, arrested in November 1973. Account of his incarceration at the Estadio Regional de Concepción, by the Army, VIII Region: [...] being held incommunicado for five days after the Regional Stadium, they put a hose 3 / 4 by mouth and gave [ the] water [...].
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment at Fort Borgoño, VIII Region: [...] I put cotton in both eyes, then adhesive huincha above and a black hood tied around his neck, tied my hands and feet tightly and I sank into a those oil drum of 250 liters containing ammonia, urine, faeces and seawater, and immersed me until my breath was no more, no less my lungs and did it again and again, accompanied by beatings and questions, that was what they called them in torture, the famous submarine.
Man arrested in October 1974. Account of his detention in Port Octay Tenure, Region X: There I had thrown more or less up to 16 hours, took me here and took me to a stable, three police there put me back to a plank and then proceeded to torment me with water, one of them covered my mouth with a cloth and the other I threw the water up the nose and the third
the stomach so I stepped into unconsciousness [...].
Man, arrested in April 1975. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Villa Grimaldi DINA, Region Metropolitana: about midnight I was taken back to the cell and dragged to the interrogation room. This time I was not used electricity. I was tied to a chair and I put a plastic bag over his head that I knotted with a tight cord around his neck. The bag contained a little air and a little sawdust. I began to breathe the air bag in less than a minute ran out. The walls of the bag is adhered to
me face and in my desperation to breathe air and started to swallow nonexistent nose and mouth by sawdust. I entered those foreign matter into the lungs and tried to expel violent muscle contractions. The effort resulted in me vomiting which were emptied into the bag. I swallowed my own vomit now joined the sawdust. When symptoms of suffocation became very strong, dropped the bag and left me alone for a few minutes. Then I was beaten with leather straps and cuffs on the face, arms, chest and thighs. Bag torture known as waterboarding dry, I applied it twice more during the night.
Exposure to extreme temperatures
Beyond the inconvenience of being themselves detained, the fact of deliberately exposing a person at very high or very low for the sole purpose of causing physical or mental suffering, is also a method of torture. The Commission collected several testimonies of people exposed to premeditated weather for long periods or extreme temperatures in the upper or lower limit of what is tolerable for a healthy human being.
Man, arrested in September 1973. Account of his imprisonment in the Regiment N ° 14 of Aysen Region XI: [...] was naked in the snow, next to the outdoor enclosure, with application of current in various parts of body, head shots while on the ground. [...].
Man arrested in January 1974. Account of his imprisonment in the Prison Camp Chacabuco, II Region: [...] standing all day in the sun (40 ° C) and at night made them run to feel the cold of the desert.
man, arrested in June 1974. Account of his detention on the grounds of the Carabineros Training Group, Antofagasta, II Region: We spent days in the yard tied to a pole in the back with his eyes bandaged night and day in the sun by day and cold night .
Man arrested in September 1974. Story his incarceration at the Estadio Fiscal de Punta Arenas, XII Region: I was dragged naked through the soccer stadium Prosecutor, at six in the morning, with frost and temperatures reaching below 10 degrees cold. I was tied hand and foot and two Aviat [Air Force members] dragged me like oxen, the only difference that they were a little faster.
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