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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, September 1973
- Tags:
- Eduardo Ojeda
- Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson
- Magallanes Region
- National Anthem of Chile
- Himno Nacional de Chile
- Eusebio Lillo
- Ramón Carnicer
- #Male narrator
- #Listening to music
- #Music piece from Chile
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Relationship with agents
- #Solidarity
- #Communication
- #Collective singing
- « We arrived at Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . All we knew was that we had been arrested in the morning - nothing else. »- [Read full testimony]
Published on: 16 October 2015
- Music piece by:Manuel José Castilla (lyrics) and Gustavo Leguizamón (music). Popularised by Mercedes Sosa
- Testimony by:Eduardo Ojeda
- Experience in:
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- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of
11 September . We knew that we had been arrested that morning, and we knew nothing else yet. »- [Read full testimony]
Published on: 16 October 2015
- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
- Tags:
- Ignacio Puelma
- Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque
- Valparaíso Region
- You Hear It Far Away
- Se escucha muy lejos
- #Original lyrics
- #Original music
- #Male narrator
- #Writing music
- #Listening to music
- #Music piece from Chile
- #Description of prison life
- #Torture
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Protest
- #Instrument
- #Show
- #Collective singing
- « The sound of the sea was carried over the cabins of the Ritoque Prison Camp by the wind. It was the daily music given to us as a gift by the ocean. »
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Published on: 04 October 2015
- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Alejandro Olate
- Experience in:
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- « The youngest among us, aged 17 or even 16 years, did the heaviest work on Dawson Island. We had to fell trees, cut them, split them in two, cut them into wedges, and walk the several hundred meters back to the barracks carrying the logs on our shoulders. »
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Published on: 03 October 2015
- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:
- Tags:
- Sergio Vesely
- Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví
- Valparaíso Region
- National Anthem of Chile
- Eusebio Lillo
- Ramón Carnicer
- #Male narrator
- #Music piece from Chile
- #Description of prison life
- #Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Music as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- #Relationship with prisoners
- #Relationship with agents
- #Protest
- #Collective singing
- « The Puchuncaví Prisoners Camp had a daily routine similar to that of military regiments. In a ridiculous ceremony, the flag was raised every morning at dawn and then it was taken down at nightfall. »
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Published on: 25 September 2015
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
- Tags:
- « This song is dedicated to Graciela Navarro, who managed to make my prisoner's life more beautiful on the days we were allowed to receive visitors. »
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Published on: 23 September 2015
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
- Tags:
- « I composed this song for a small children’s party we organised in the visitors’ yard of the Valparaíso Jail. I remember how the children had fun that day and enjoyed the play. That was the first time I put down the guitar so that a prisoner who played the accordion could accompany me. »
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Published on: 23 September 2015
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
- Tags:
- « Several of my friends and comrades disappeared after being arrested. The dictatorship denied knowledge of their whereabouts but I knew they were lying. »
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Published on: 23 September 2015
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
- Tags:
- « In our political discussions, we always spoke disdainfully of the middle class. In the view of the Marxist ideologues in prison, that sector of society supported the dictatorship and it was necessary to reverse that trend. »
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Published on: 23 September 2015
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
- Tags:
- « The dream of the political prisoner was to regain freedom. All of us would feel joy when one of us was about to be released from prison, although it far from easy to see a comrade depart. Even less so for those who suspected they would never enjoy that privilege. »
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Published on: 23 September 2015
- « We arrived at Camp Compingin on Dawson Island on the afternoon of