Viola remembers the terror of being naked in front of her captors, the blows to her body and the pain. Carlos recounts being barely able to breathe amid beatings that left his ribs broken. For Alejandra, some horrors she would rather not put into words.
Fifty years after a 1973 coup in Chile that ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule and saw some 40,000 people imprisoned, disappeared, tortured or killed, Reuters went with five former political prisoners to the sites of their confinement. The testimonies of three are included here.
"They beat you constantly. They beat you before asking you anything, you couldn't breathe," he told Reuters at another former detention center, the Clinica Santa Lucia. "Doctors examined us with absolute contempt, they verified blows and injuries and you returned to the cell. Then you were beaten again.
Incorporating testimonies from more than 30,000 people, the Valech Commission found that women were also often the target of sexual violence. "I don't think I'll be able to enter that house. I returned once in 1990 to remember it and it was terrible," she told Reuters, who photographed the 70-year-old outside the estate that is now being converted into a site of remembrance.
Viola Todorovic, 69, says the first time she was tortured she almost went into cardiac arrest. She was 19 and a MIR activist. She recalled being blindfolded and gagged at the Londres 38 former detention site.
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