Colonia Dignidad: Chile's Government Stops Victims Memorial

Tagesschau

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On the former grounds of the German sect Colonia Dignidad in Chile, terrible deeds were committed. Therefore, there should be a place of remembrance there. Now the new, right-wing Chilean government wants to prevent this.

Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Many people were tortured and killed in the sect-like settlement between 1973 and 1990. The former government had ordered the expropriation of the settlement site. This is now to be changed again.

Zeit Online

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People were tortured and abused in the Colonia Dignidad sect. Chile's new ultra-right-wing government is now scraping its plans to build a memorial.

Spiegel

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Actually, the German settlement Colonia Dignidad was to become a memorial for the victims of the sect. Chile's new right-wing government has overturned the decision.

Noticias ao Minuto

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The Government of the new Chilean President, José Antonio Kast, of extreme-right, will review the expropriation of the old Colonia Dignita, a German prisoner who served as a torture center during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990).