Cantos Cautivos
11 results where found for «#Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment»
- Music piece by:unknown
- Testimony by:Patricio Polanco
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros de Pisagua, November 1973
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- « In 1973 and 1974, Pisagua was characterised by the harsh and cruel treatment of political prisoners. Singing was mandatory for prisoners, who were guarded by Army platoons, and it was also a means to avoid beatings and collective mistreatment. »
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- Music piece by:Jacqueline Misrahi, Lana Sebastian and Paul Sebastian. Popularised by Dalida in various languages: Italian ('Gigi L’amoroso'), Spanish ('Gigi el amoroso'), French ('Gigi l'amour'), English ('The Great Gigi l’amoroso'), German ('Gigi der Geliebte') and Japanese ('Ai suru Jiji').
- Testimony by:Eduardo René Cuevas
- Experience in:Regimiento de Infantería Reforzada Nº 3, Los Ángeles (nowadays Regimiento de Infantería Nº 17), October - November 1973
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- « This song was used while the Military Intelligence Service (SIM) subjected me to cruel torture at a clandestine torture centre in the southern Chilean city of Los Ángeles. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valparaíso, 1976
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- « 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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- « The cruel beast that I detest »
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- Music piece by:Hamlet Lima Quintana
- Testimony by:Ana María Jiménez
- Experience in:Villa Grimaldi, April 1975
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- « I want to recall a night at Villa Grimaldi. »
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- « The guard who took us, a rather sinister and cruel woman, asked which of us was studying music. I identified myself, and she said: 'We're bored here. So you’re gonna sing something to entertain us'. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « 'Ñaca-ñaca' was an interjection we used at Camp Melinka whenever we wanted to signal and poke fun at any dark thought that might cross our minds. That may be why it seemed the ideal name to give to the paper maché puppet that played the role of the mean king in the puppet stories we performed to entertain the children who came to visit their captive fathers. »
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- « nor one as cruel, sinister, ugly and vain »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - October 1975
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- « During the last third of the 20th century, the concentration camps of the Chilean dictatorship were characterised by a high grade of organisation among prisoners, as well as the overflowing creativity they applied to all areas of human ingenuity. »
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- « nor one as cruel, sinister, ugly and vain »
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- Music piece by:Unknown
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is another song that was performed by the band Los de Chacabuco and was sung in the prisoners’ weekly show. It’s a very old Mexican song that was popular in Chile. »
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- « And after the cruel battle ended »
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- Music piece by:Hans Leip
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, May - Octobre 1975
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- « During the daily flag-lowering ritual in the camp Melinka, the prisoners first had to get into formation in the courtyard and then walk in line to the location of the mast. »
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- « I was just giving the mother the last treatment instructions when I heard the column marching. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Pedro Mella Contreras
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 1988-1989
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- « When they took me out to physiotherapy treatment, I sang some verses of the song ‘The Apparition’ loudly: »
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- Music piece by:Collective creation
- Testimony by:Ignacio Puelma
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisoneros Ritoque, February 1975
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- « 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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- « Gone were the torture centres, the cruellest torments seemed distant, and that perception helped us to reconstruct ourselves. Ritoque, Puchuncaví, Tres Álamos and other mass prisoner centres were seething places of activity. »
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