First Region
first region in the present, the command was assumed, the September 11, 1973, by the head of a state of emergency area designated for the then province of Tarapaca except the Department of Arica, which was established as a State of Emergency Zone apart with a headed own. Both appointments were made official by Decree Law No. 4 of September 11, 1973.
The largest number of detainees was concentrated for 1973 and 1974. From 1975 and until 1983 was a significant decrease in arrests compared to the previous period, but increased in 1984.
arrests in 1973 and 1974 were made by members of the Army, Police and the Police Department. Rarely acted in joint operations. Some accounts mention the presence of civilian personnel in those operations. Whatever the institution that made the first arrest and the grounds which were initially sent, the detainees were moved to different places for interrogation, in preference to military sites, such as Reinforced Regiment No. 4 Rancagua Arica and Telecommunications
Regiment No. 6 Tarapacá Iquique. Thus, during his detention remained for hours, days or weeks in different places.
The data indicate that during 1974 the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) operated in the region by transferring the detainees for interrogation at different venues and also to their barracks in Santiago, especially at Villa Grimaldi.
During the eighties, the detention of persons was carried out by police, the National Research and Intelligence (CNI). Most detainees were questioned by the CNI. Witnesses mentioned
eight secret detention and torture for the DINA and CNI. Among them, the San Miguel headquarters Azapa Room, which was recognized in 1984 by Decree No. 594 of Ministry of Interior decree which provided a list of premises of the CNI used as places of detention. Other compounds were identified by the testimonies given to this Committee.
Regarding the treatment of prisoners and the conditions of freedom deprivation, the testimony received account for various situations of extreme violence against the person, occurring after the time of arrest, during transport, during interrogation, and during period temporary detention pending trial or released. Most people who attended the Commission alleged that they were tortured during interrogation. Many respondents indicated, moreover, that were transferred in groups to areas in the wasteland-pampa-to be subjected to abuse, physical punishment and forced labor. There are also reports which indicate that during the trip interrupted shipments to mistreatment and beating of prisoners, subjecting them repeatedly
mock executions. According to testimonies received, the practices of abuse and torture in police precincts occurred throughout the period of the scheme
military
Importantly, the repressive control in Iquique and Arica, and especially in the latter city, was used by the Army, even during the eighties.
At the time that emerged most strongly protests against the military regime protests in the populations were suppressed by military contingent, which also used weapons and war vehicles.
In the region there was a political prison camp itself, the prison camp Pisagua. It was one of the largest prison camps in the country, the detainees were sent from various regions, especially in the region of Valparaiso and the Metropolitan. It was later used as a place of banishment. In 1973-1974, this camp was marked by cruelty to prisoners, the continuing executions and rigor in terms of permanence and survival of the victims, aggravated by the geographical features of the site
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The list of the 31 compounds used in this region at the end of the chapter. Here are some of them. Precincts
Armed Forces
1. Army
a) Reinforced Regiment No. 4 Rancagua, Arica
This exhibition was held from 11 September of the year 1973, according to the testimony of men and women who were in this place during 1973 and early 1974. The arrests decreased during 1974 and occurred sporadically until 1988.
People came to this place by massive raids, arrests by individuals, by referral from police or by subpoena to testify before the military prosecutor.
A small group of prisoners remained for more than a day in that place in a courtyard, covered with gravel, slept and ate what they had received no food for the military.
Most people were summoned to testify and had to wait hours in the yard for questioning; if night arrival had not been called, should sleep in the same place.
Men and women held there reported being subjected to constant abuse, beating and humiliation.
The torture was applied in both expected to be taken to the interrogation, at which people should remain silent and motionless in their places, to avoid attracting attention, as in the interrogations, which received widespread shock-that caused some fractures, "they cut their hair in a violent manner, causing injury to the scalp, being applied to the submarine, sometimes in water with faeces, and telephone, electricity throughout the body, hanging. They dipped their naked bodies with cold water
were subjected to mock executions, sexual humiliation to
, and forced to witness and listen to the torture of other detainees.
The cruelest torture applied to persons suspected of increased political commitment and were subsequently derived from the exhibition of torture by the DINA. Others remained several days locked in crowded, they should take turns to lie on the floor, waiting for further interrogation or referrals to other prisons or elsewhere, to enclosures dependent DINA torture or the Military Intelligence Service (SIM .)
b) Telecommunications Regiment No. 6 Tarapacá, Iquique
This place was used between September 1973 and 1976.
Reports indicate that prisoners were kept in a shed and two containers, others remained in the open, exposed to sunlight during the day and cold at night, sometimes naked. They had to sleep on the floor, they were deprived of food and water, were guarded by a ring of heavily armed military.
There are also allegations that were thrown into a pig pen
the regiment. Other practices that had to suffer, according to those who testified before the Commission, were the mock executions, hangings
, application electricity, submarine telephone and cigarette burns. Some women and men reported having been tortured and sexually assaulted.
this site also became prisoners of Santiago and Valparaiso. Later, the detainees were taken in mostly Pisagua.
c) Army Division VI - Iquique
This place began to be used from the day September 11, 1973
until the end of 1974. Most detainees are concentrated in the year 1973. Later there was a smaller number of prisoners, until 1976.
was a place of transit. Thus, prisoners, men and women, remained a few hours there and then sent to the Telecommunications Regiment Tarapacá.
The stories say that immediately after entering,
were received blows, were isolated and incommunicado, deprived of food and water, threatened and beaten. The continuously transferred to the Telecommunications Regiment for questioning.
d) Logistics Battalion No. 6 Pisagua
This building was used only during 1973.
testimonies agree that both women and men who were taken to this building were beaten and tortured. The abuses suffered
included food deprivation regime (daytime only were given a water beans and a cup of coffee), remain blindfolded and repeatedly beaten. Some accounts relate cigarette burns, application of electricity, as well as sexual harassment of women.
2. Prisoners fields
a) Camp or Camping
Arica Machas Most of the detainees who testified before the Commission indicated that they were in place for 1975. But arrests are recorded since 1973.
Originally this place was the Camping Machas. From State
coup, the military took place on campus and turned it intended to stay, interrogation and torture of prisoners. The prisoners were in large groups, some imitations of houses, not allowed to talk among themselves, despite being in the same place. The stay was for relatively long periods (weeks) and were then called to their final destinations, prisons or prison camps elsewhere. The testimony referred
various humiliating and torturous, among others: beatings, shackles, hooding, hanging, electric shocks, mock executions and forced labor.
b) prison camp
Pisagua Pisagua port is isolated geographically from the sea, high hills and desert. It lies between Arica e Iquique on the coast at a distance of about 40 km from the highway. The town was nearly deserted in 1973.
It had a military compound and a three-story prison, with ten cells on the first floor, two by four meters each, in the second and third floor had eight cells, of about four by ten meters. Worked as a camp for political prisoners during the government of Gabriel González Videla (1946-1952) and returned to be used briefly during the reign of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1952-1958). In the mid-sixties, Pisagua was adapted to function as a penal colony.
Immediately after 11 September 1973 was organized Pisagua a military camp, under the Army to concentrate political prisoners. It was the room where they detained the largest number of detainees in the region, as well as groups of prisoners from the south of the country during 1973. More than 800 people were there, according to the testimonies of those who testified before the Commission. In the eighties, they were sent, as relegated, over one hundred detainees who were detained in the prison and women in adjoining rooms at the Village Theatre and in a warehouse, named the supermarket.
According to testimony, the detainees were there in very bad conditions of life were long periods kept blindfolded and handcuffed, constantly beaten, threatened, subjected to forced labor, deprived of food, water and sleep.
Overcrowding was extreme, especially when the detainees were sent, incommunicado for long periods, in groups of about 15 people to a cell two meters by four meters, allowed to go to the bathroom only twice a day.
testimonies have been described during interrogations, constant beatings, sometimes with brass knuckles, cuts in the body with sharp objects, such as crooked or yataghans, mock executions, were bound and blindfolded them, hanging; being applied to the grid telephone, water and excrement submarine, electric shocks, cigarette burns.
note have been buried in mass to the head and were urinated
up in full sun for long periods, they were beaten to cause them to fracture, were attacked by dogs, forced them to fight among themselves for food, they were enclosed in casks to throw down the mountain. There are also stories of people subjected to violence and sexual assault. They were kept naked torso in the sun, to cause serious burns to their bodies, and for the remaining nights in the open, suffering from low temperatures.
were forced to go up and down the hills running and beat those
that your physical health or advanced age could not keep pace with the other prisoners
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Pisagua, as a concentration camp, was also marked by psychological torture its detainees suffering the executions took place there.
This site has the highest number of executions by the so-called law of leakage. He focused a lot of people under martial, sentenced to extremely high, many of them even death. The convicts remained days waiting for their own performances and that caused anguish and despair to their peers and themselves.
Carabineros de Chile
a) Police Station No. 1 of Arica
The highest number of arrests were recorded between 1973 and 1974. There is evidence of stay in the station, more isolated until 1988. In 1984 there was a slight increase of detainees there.
It was a place of temporary detention, although there were some complaints from people who stayed at this isolated station and held incommunicado for several days. Some reported having been arrested by civilians that led to that location.
Former prisoners reported that they were threatened and abused. They remained tied up, locked up in filthy jails, sometimes naked, were wet, they were deprived of food and water and were interrupted or sleep deprived.
According to testimonies received, prisoners, men and women were beaten, they used electricity, were immersed in a drum with water, there are also reports of sexual assaults and mock executions.
b) Police Station No. 3 of Arica
Most arrests occurred in 1973. It was a transit site and the prisoners were transferred from there to a regiment or a prison.
Respondents said they were locked in cells, hooded and isolated. They were forced to stand and without speaking between them. Recorded in the accounts that remained there a short time. However, during his stay were repeatedly abused, beaten, deprived of food and water.
Unlike other facilities in this precinct were concentrated cases of arrests of the eighties. At that time, before being transferred to prison or made available to the prosecution, were interrogated and beaten at the police station. The interrogation of practicing civil agents, identified by the detainees as agents of the Police Intelligence Service (SICAR). The detainees said that during interrogation they were subjected to beatings widespread feet, fists and with blunt objects, and bumps as the telephone. Were booked, photographed and often hooded and tied to their transfer to interrogation of other
enclosures, one of them, adjacent to the station, CNI-controlled enclosure.
c) Police Station No. 1 of Iquique
The vast majority of detainees were in these areas in 1973. Later records of arrests decreased.
remaining conditions were poor and cruel.
were crowded, deprived of shelter, food and water, and constantly threatened and beaten. Refer in their testimonies that were application of electricity, beatings and the phone.
d) Victoria Station
saltpeter Located in Victoria. There were cases of detainees since September 1973 to January 1975. The largest number of prisoners were concentrated in 1973.
According to the testimony of detainees, this area was mainly a transit point, from where they were taken to prison camp or Pisagua Telecommunications Regiment No. 6 Tarapacá.
Former political prisoners reported being questioned with kicks and fists, rifle butts and psychological constraints.
this site there were the people in this office nitrate relegated to signing day, immediately after September 11, 1973.
e) Police Station Pozo Almonte
This place was used mainly in 1973 and was a temporary detention facility. The testimonies indicate that the prisoners were bound and blindfolded. Described have been subjected to beatings widespread.
Investigative Police of Chile
a) Headquarters Arica Research
arrests are recorded since September 1973.
Most respondents were detained during 1973 and their number decreased in 1974. In 1984, an increase of arrests, because they applied a free decree of the Ministry of Interior under the 24 th Transitory provision of the Constitution.
prisoners and prisoners were held incommunicado and subjected to mistreatment and torture, as stated in the testimony. They were crowded, deprived of food and water and unable to sleep. On several occasions, they were isolated and were thrown naked into a dark dungeon.
The testimonies of prisoners realize
have suffered physical and psychological torture: beatings, application of electricity, bondage and
hangings, beatings as telephone and mock executions. The
in the 80 detainees were transferred from this room to torture centers in the CNI.
b) Research Barracks
Iquique This exhibition was held from September 1973 saw the highest number of arrests in 1974.
During 1984 there was a slight increase in the number of detainees. These arrests were the transitional character.
The testimony received regarding the 70 state that the prisoners were held incommunicado, blindfolded and deprived of food.
addition, the torture included beatings, application of the phone and the submarine, electric current are applied throughout the body has been wet.
The torture consisted of the 80 interrogation under threats, use of electric, telephone and kicks.
Penal Institutions
a) Public Prison
Arica According to testimony received by the Commission for this exhibition, there were political prisoners there since September 1973, which focused the majority. There is an increase of detainees in 1986.
political prisoners complained to the Commission who lived in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, denied food and water, sleeping on cardboard.
According to his testimony, the 70 detainees were taken from prison to be interrogated and tortured in other venues, especially in the regiments.
There is evidence that in the first months of military rule were women held in this room and in the late 74 or early 75, at the request of political prisoners, which to date amounted to about 30, were taken in the same prison, a place created especially for them.
b) Public Prison Iquique
In 1973 there was a significant number of detainees, but most of the arrests in this room were recorded in 1974. Thereafter were sporadic until 1989.
During the early years, prisoners trasladadaban frequently to other military sites to be interrogated and tortured. Some reports of arrests since 1980 reported that the prison were interrogated and tortured by agents of the CNI and had suffered constant threats, abuse and harassment. Feeding conditions were poor and had to share the place of confinement with ordinary prisoners. The testimonies agree that the prisoners were in solitary confinement, which were wet and stayed with water, forced to sleep on the wet floor or standing.
c) Prison Iquique Good Shepherd
Most women who stayed in this room are recorded in the año 1973.
Generalmente las prisioneras eran trasladadas, encapuchadas y amarradas, a otros recintos para interrogatorios, en los que eran torturadas.
Recintos de la Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia, DINA y de la Central
Nacional de Informaciones, CNI
a) Recinto DINA en Arica
De acuerdo a los antecedentes recibidos, funcionó en la calle Diego Portales s/n.
La mayoría de las detenciones se concentraron en 1975.
Era una casona, habilitada como centro de tortura, a cargo de la DINA. Su
mayor particularidad era que en el salón de entrada había un letrero que decía Si lo sabe... cante , doing a parody of a television program, and the room was used for interrogation and torture was called Studio Q. These details were known detainees on arrival at the site and recommended they sing. All circulating agents in civilian clothes. The people were blindfolded or hooded, tied up, unable to communicate. This site was used for militant elite. They were detained by the DINA directly or derived from the interrogations of Rancagua Regiment, when they felt they deserved special treatment. It was a place of torture for excellence in the seventies, there
applied the most varied techniques of torture. While they in that room, people were acting as missing. Only when they were transferred to the Rancagua Regiment jail or acknowledged his detention. In cases were referred to Santiago and other cities, if they were required by specific events.
b) Enclosure DINA "Casa de la Risa" Orella Street 100, Iquique
According to testimony recorded, this area-located in Orella 100, Costanera sector with Arturo Prat, Iquique, was used between 1973 and 1978.
torture was the room where he concentrated most selective interrogation and torture activists and political activists, by the DINA and the CNI later.
In this place were isolated and incommunicado detention, blindfolded, denied food, water and sleep. They were constantly threatened and listened to the torture of his fellow detainees. The following are some of the alleged torture, hooded or blindfolded them bagged applied electrical current throughout the body and they were beaten, were subjected to mock executions, were submerged in drums of water to suffocation.
c) Enclosure CNI, Emerald Street, Iquique
The detainees reported having been in this building during 1981. It was publicly recognized as a campus of the CNI.
No details about the characteristics of the enclosure but of the treatment received by detainees, who claim to have been bitten by dogs, submerged in water drums, subject to application of electric shocks and, mock executions and all sorts of threats and humiliation.
d) Enclosure CNI San Miguel de Azapa, Arica
The existence of this center was publicly acknowledged in 1984 when it was published in the Official Journal Decree of the Ministry of Interior No. 594 of June 14, 1984, in he had a list of premises of the CNI considered places of detention for the purpose of "meeting the arrests that have under the twenty-fourth transitory provision of the Constitution of the Republic of Chile. "location is the plot 35, San Miguel de Azapa, Arica.
respondents were presented that were held there in 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1985.
consists, from testimonies of victims, that this was an area of \u200b\u200b
interrogation and torture. The former detainees say they
systematically applied torture and humiliation, deprived of food, water and sleep, stood naked, isolated and isolated. They were under intense beatings, application of electric , threatened with dogs, the phone.
During the eighties, operated jointly by the CNI and Research.
There testimonies of prisoners who had been detained in investigations and then were taken by the police in this precinct.
e) Site CNI, Avenida Santa María 2936, Arica
The largest number of prisoners here are concentrated in the year 1983. There
detail of the enclosure, as all prisoners entered and remained blindfolded, handcuffed and held incommunicado. In his stories describe various torture techniques, current application, aimed shots, extremely violent interrogations, forced positions and psychological torture.
f) Site CNI, street Azola, Arica
enclosures at the rear of the 3rd Precinct.
According to accounts given to this Commission, the detainees were subjected to various torture techniques, such as the pau de Arara, blows to the kidneys, back, testes, head and entire body with blunt objects, were hung and heads submerged in dirty water (submarine); naked power applied to them in the ears and genitals. During the torture they put the music at maximum volume. It has a history of sexual harassment against men. Remained blindfolded and incommunicado.
In his remarks, the authors identified 46 places of detention in this region. Here are 31 precincts on of which received a significant number of witness
enclosures I List Region
• Logistics Battalion No. 6 Pisagua, Iquique
• Prisoners Camp Pisagua
• Camping Machas, Arica Arica
• Jail
• Prison Iquique
• Prison for Women Good Shepherd, Arica
• Prison for Women Good Shepherd, Iquique
• Police Station No. 1, Arica
• Police Station No. 1, Iquique
• Police Station No. 3, Arica
• Police Station,
• Office Victoria Police Station, Pozo Almonte
• Research Headquarters, Arica
• Research Headquarters, Iquique
• Prefecture of Police, Arica
• Prefecture of Police, Iquique
• CNI campus Avenida Santa María 2936, Arica
• CNI Azola Street Campus, Arica
• Site CNI, CNI Iquique
• Campus, San Miguel de Azapa
• Site DINA House of Laughter Orella Street 100,
Iquique • Arica Site DINA DINA
• Industry Exhibition abandoned in front of the former Citroen
(Nun & Germain)
• Cavalry Regiment N ° 1 Grenadier, Iquique
• Infantry Regiment No. 5 Carampangue, Iquique
• Telecommunications Regiment No. 6 Tarapacá, Iquique
• Reinforced Regiment No. 4 Rancagua, Arica
• Retainer Police Customs / Aduana Vieja, Iquique
• Detention of Police, Alliance
• Detention of Police, Oasis de Pica
• Army Division VI.
Antofagasta Region
In 1973, the second region corresponded to the province of Antofagasta. He was appointed Head of State of Emergency Zone Commander of the First Army Division. In the department of El Loa was appointed commander of the Infantry Regiment N ° 15 of Calama. Both appointments were made official by Decree Law No. 4 of September 11, 1973.
Most arrests were made by police and the Police Department. In the cities of Calama and Antofagasta some people were arrested by the military. Air Force arrests in Antofagasta. From the very moment of detention, prisoners were mistreated and beaten. Once arrested, not given to know the place of arrest and were held incommunicado. During detention, they were moved frequently to different precincts.
In Tocopilla detainees were taken to the police station or jail, temporary places of detention while they investigated. From there they were taken to jail or a regiment of Antofagasta.
In Chuquicamata and Calama, prisoners and prisoners were taken to a police station, the regiment or an enclosure in the National Explosives Company (ENAEX - Ex Dupont). Were subsequently transferred to prison or to any precinct in Calama Antofagasta, as the headquarters of Investigation, an area of \u200b\u200bSICAR (ex Church or Divine Providence Police Training Group), Brown Hill AFB or Infantry Regiment. In Antofagasta, where centralized the highest number of arrests in the region, the military prosecutor was in the 1st Army Division. However, people were cited, and detained for questioning at the offices of the mayor's office, where they were released or transferred to a detention center. When people were arrested and were required by the prosecutor, it is generally moving toward the regiments or the air base.
detainees in prisons in the area that were investigated were subjected to interrogation in other places, especially in the precincts of the Armed Forces and were subsequently returned to prison.
The region has opened two detention camps: one in the former saltpeter Chacabuco, which was held across the country, and one in Calama, Concepcion Military Camp, where prisoners held in 1978 a group of workers at Codelco Chuquicamata.
During the 1980 arrests are especially Carabineros and Investigations. In Antofagasta saw the highest number of detainees.
There, police acted, SICAR, Research and CNI.
In Calama and Chuquicamata not registered premises of the CNI. According to testimony, they would have used the barracks for Research in these places as places of detention.
From history received, the Commission identified 42 places of detention and imprisonment policies in the Second Region.
List enclosures II Region
• Cerro Moreno Air Base
• Chacabuco prison camp
• Military Camp Conchi
• Jail • Jail Antofagasta Calama
• Buen Pastor women's prison, Antofagasta
•
Tocopilla prison • Police Station No. 1, Antofagasta
(Current Police Station No. 2, Antofagasta)
• Police Station No. 2, Antofagasta
(Current Station police station No. 3, Antofagasta)
• Police Station, Calama
• Police Station, Chuquicamata
• Police Station, Tocopilla / Office of Police
• Headquarters Research, Antofagasta
• Headquarters Research, Calama
• Barracks Investigations, Mineral Tocopilla
• Dependencies • Military Detachment
Chuquicamata, San Pedro de Atacama
• National Explosives Company / ENAEX / Ex Dupont
• Regional Stadium Sokol, Antofagasta
• Military Prosecutor / Government of Antofagasta / Quartermaster
• Group Instruction of the Carabineros, Antofagasta
• Prefecture of Police, CalamaRecinto CNI street Latorre 2192, Antofagasta
• Site DINA-CNI former Church Divine Providence, Antofagasta
• Infantry Regiment No. 15 of Calama (Current Regiment
Reinforced No. 1 Topater) / Attorney Military and police
• Infantry Regiment No. 7 Emerald, Antofagasta
• Telecommunications Regiment No. 1, Antofagasta (Actual Battalion
Logistics)
• Retainer police Dupont, Calama
• Detention of Police, Baquedano (Current Carabineros,
Baquedano)
• Detention of Police, Blancos
• Detention of Police, Mussels
• Commissioner of Police, Pedro de Valdivia
• Commissioner of Police, Taltal
• Deputy-Norte, Antofagasta (Current Police Station
No. 2, Antofagasta)
• Carabineros, María Elena
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