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A rose garden bearing the names of 191 female political prisoners, either missing or executed during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet, is located in the former Villa Grimaldi torture center, now a memorial park in Santiago, Chile. To the left is an open air theater in front of the reproduction of the red water tower used for torture and isolation of prisoners in box-like cells. Few returned from there alive. Villa Grimaldi was used by Pinochet's secret police for confinement, torture and extermination of opponents from 1973 to 1978.
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A large mosaic sits in the center of an amphitheater inside the former clandestine jail where opponents of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet were held, tortured, and exterminated by the secret police from 1973-78. Today it is a memorial park honoring the fallen and a reminder of the atrocities committed there. It was created in the hopes these crimes will never be repeated.
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Photos of victims adorn the memorial park of the infamous Villa Grimaldi in Santiago, Chile.
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The town of Lonquen, Chile, has a horrifying history. In 1978, in a stone oven on the town's outskirts, the bodies of 11 poor farmers and four youths who were executed by Chile's military dictatorship were found. Government agents buried them, and the oven was blown up. However, the ruins have become a memorial for hundreds of people who come every year to honor the victims.
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A plaque commemorating the victims of Lonquen.
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