Chile: Victims of police repression wait for justice after six years

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In Chile, more than 90% of cases of human rights violations remain closed without culprits. In this context, six years have passed since young Chilean Gustavo Gatica lost both eyes due to police repression during the popular revolt of October 2019. Our colleague Paola Dragnic brings us more.

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00:00and in chile more than 90 percent of the cases of human rights violations are closed without

00:05culprits in this context six years have passed since young chile and gustavo gatica lost both

00:10eyes due to police repression during the popular revolt of october of 2019 our colleague paula

00:16drachnik with more details anna maria carries the black and white photograph of her father and her

00:25little brother both detained and disappeared by the dictatorship of augusto pinochet to these

00:31photographs she now adds those of the victims of the social uprising of october 2019 if they use

00:41it to make our people disappear now they mutilate them they leave them blind they force them to

00:47commit suicide jorge salvo one day before committing suicide he was with us it was impressive so that

00:53can happen to us again here memory is the main thing memory is the part it is the basis of true

01:00democratic system but chile seems to forgot quickly and accumulate impunity in its history

01:10there are already five young people who have taken their own lives after having their eyes mutilated by

01:16carabineros that is why actions like the one we are taking today are necessary to repudiate impunity to

01:27repudiate denialism but also immorality when crespo vindicates having shot in the eyes because here we

01:36are not only talking about gustavo gatica we are talking about hundreds of young people who have had the

01:42eyes sighted multilaterally the joven a kilo mutilar in a subita gustavo perdiu ambos ojos gustavo lost

01:49both eyes to claudio crespo gunshots an ex-lieutenant who reivindicates his actions on social networks

01:56despite the brutal evidence in the videos legged by cypher magazine nosotros creemos que los videos

02:01que se han dado a conocer we believe that the videos that have recently been released from the carabineros

02:06that correspond to claudio crespo will be relevant when making a decision because although they are

02:13not from the date of the events they do demonstrate the conduct that he carried out when he was a

02:18carabineros officer and directed his subordinates these are some of the videos listen for yourself

02:28i'm going to scratch your eyes out you hear i'm pasado six años six years have passed and for

02:36justice the more than 400 cases of ocular trauma have not been enough impunity is something that marks a

02:45society and unfortunately chile knows this today we are once again facing many trials for human

02:52right violations in democracy and 90 percent of the cases are closed without conviction they know

03:02it's difficult there is a despair among the survivors but at least they hope that crespo will serve jail

03:08time for the crime against gustavo gatica this also generates in society a normalization of violence

03:15a distrust of institution and obviously the persecution of people who demonstrate to demand

03:22rights in a favorite society persecution by the state and the media but also social criminalization

03:34well i call on the common people to be well informed that we are not criminals that the great

03:40majority more than the 99 percent i believe of the people who went out protest and who were injured in

03:46the protest were working people the more than 460 mutilated eyes were those of working people

03:57and that today they expect some justice equipo telesur chile you know the news the us government

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