Φωτ. via Claudio Aguirre.
Te Recuerdo Amanda, Victor Jara.
Με πανό στην τελευταία πορεία της Λαικής Ενότητας (4 Σεπτ. του 1973).
Εκτός από τη μουσική, ο Victor Jara ασχολήθηκε πολύ και με το θέατρο.
Αριστ.: Ηθοποιός στο έργο "La Remolienda" του συγγραφέα Alejandro Sieveking.
Δεξ.: Μία παράσταση του Teatro de Ensayo. Φωτ. René Combeau Trillat.
Plegaria a un labrador, με τους Quilapayún.
Victor Jara, Joan Turner.
Ο Victor Jara με την αγγλίδα γυναίκα του Joan Turner και τις δύο τους κόρες Manuela και Amanda.
Ο Πρόεδρος Salvador Allende με τα παιδιά του σε συγκέντρωση που έγινε στο Estadio Chile. Φωτ. Fundacion Salvador Allende.
Φωτ. Marcelo Montecino.
5.000 κρατούμενοι συγκεντρώθηκαν στο Estadio Chile αμέσως μετά το πραξικόπημα. Πολλοί απ' αυτούς βασανίστηκαν και δολοφονήθηκαν μέσα στο στάδιο. Ο Victor Jara συνελήφθη την ίδια μέρα του πραξικοπήματος ενώ κατευθυνόταν προς το Κρατικό Τεχνικό Πανεπιστήμιο όπου εργαζόταν. Σύμφωνα με τη μαρτυρία στρατιώτη που ήταν παρών στο στάδιο, ο Victor Jara αναγνωρίστηκε από έναν υπολοχαγό γνωστό με το παρατσούκλι "ο Πρίγκιπας" ο οποίος τον ξεχώρισε από τους άλλους κρατουμένους για να τον χλευάσει και να τον βασανίσει. Αφού του έσπασε τα χέρια με την κάννη ενός όπλου (και σύμφωνα με μία άλλη εκδοχή του έκοψε και τα δάχτυλα), του έδωσε μία κιθάρα να παίξει, ενώ κάποιος άλλος αξιωματικός έπαιζε μαζί του ρώσικη ρουλέτα. Όταν ο Victor Jara άρχισε να τραγουδάει το Venceremos, οι βασανιστές του διέταξαν τους στρατιώτες να τον πυροβολήσουν, αυτόν και τους άλλους 14 κρατουμένους που τραγούδησαν μαζί του. Στο σώμα του Victor Jara βρέθηκαν 44 σφαίρες. Φωτ. Marcelo Montecino.
'Εξω από το νεκροτομείο. Φωτ. Marcelo Montecino.
Εισβολή στο γραφείο του.. δημοσίου υπαλλήλου Edwin Dimter Bianchi που αναγνωρίστηκε από επιζώντες συγκρατούμενους του Victor Jara ως ο "El Príncipe", ο κύριος βασανιστής και δολοφόνος του. Βλ. το ακόλουθο απόσπασμα από το άρθρο του Joao Da Silva "Who killed Victor Jara?" στο Common Dreams :
"Those responsible for the detention, torture and death of Victor Jara benefited from immunity during the remaining 17 years of dictatorship and from the Amnesty Law decreed by the Military Junta before Chile�s return to Democracy. In December 2004, Chilean judge Juan Carlos Urrutia prosecuted the then retired Lieutenant-Colonel, Mario Manriquez Bravo for the murder of Victor Jara. Lt. Bravo was the highest commanding officer in charge at the National Stadium during 1973, but the identity of the Jara's actual killer remained unknown.
In recent months, and after various testimonies from ex-prisoners, Victor Jara�s alleged killer was identified as Edwin Dimter Bianchi. A Chilean military officer with a bad reputation (he was also known as �El Loco Dimter�) who in 1970 attended the School of the Americas (SOA), then located in Panama, and completed a one month course in �Combat Arms Orientation�. Shortly after his stint at the SOA, Dimter participated in the failed coup attempt against Salvador Allende in June of 1973 known as the �Tanquetazo� led by a rouge military brigade. Dimter and his fellow conspirators were arrested and then set free shortly after the successful coup of September 11, 1973. Upon his release, he was assigned to serve in the Estadio Chile.
Survivors of the detention center have testified that on his arrival at the stadium he was full of spite and vengeful due to his recent imprisonment under the Unidad Popular and quickly gained a reputation as a sadist. Due to his good looks and arrogant swagger he received the nickname �The Prince�. An ex-prisoner, Chilean attorney Boris Navia, described �the Prince�s� modus operandi: �He would make rounds through the different levels of the Stadium screaming insults and intimidating prisoners. He would show up unexpectedly in a section of the Stadium and the prisoners had to remain silent in his presence. He behaved like a frustrated stage actor. He always carried a leather club and when he walked through the rows of prisoners who were waiting to be brought into the stadium and had been on their knees for hours and hours with their hands on their heads he would hit and insult them�. In another episode described by ex prisoners, �The Prince�, ordered another soldier to kill a prisoner by beating him with his rifle after he tripped and stumbled over his legs. According to testimonies such as these, Dimter was directly involved in the beating and death of Victor Jara.
Edwin Dimter Bianchi has not been formally charged by a Chilean court. He was discharged from the military in December 31st 1976 for unknown reasons. After his discharge, Dimter graduated as an Accountant and found his way into anonymity by working for the military government in the pensions and audit department. Surprisingly, in 1999 he applied for government benefits under the �Ley de Exonerados Politicos� which was created to benefit victims of human rights violations under the military dictatorship. The law was introduced as a means of compensating political prisoners under the Pinochet regime who had lost their jobs, could not find employment and had lost all pension entitlement. The law provided a compensation payment and pension rights for the period concerned. Dimter was granted those benefits as of January 20th of 2000. This wasn�t the first time that these benefits were granted to a criminal (probably due to the intervention of a sympathetic senator); a similar situation took place with former Chilean Air Force Intelligence agent Rafael Gonz�lez Verdugo, who was processed for the assassination of U.S. citizen Charles Horman (the film �Missing� is based on his story).
Today, Dimter still works for the government under Michelle Bachelet as a public servant. He, together with thousands of other public servants who served under Pinochet was benefited by Law 18.972 decreed in 1990 which allowed them to remain in their positions once democracy returned to Chile.
On May 25th of 2006 the FUNA Commission in Chile organized a massive demonstration outside the building of the Department of Labor in Santiago to denounce the presence of Edwin Dimter Bianchi. A group of 15 demonstrators, including Victor Jara�s daughter Amanda Jara, went up to the 14th floor where his office is located to confront the ex-military officer and hand out informational flyers to his co-workers."
Η εισβολή στο γραφείο του Edwin Dimter Bianchi (Μάης του 2006).
Στις 5 Δεκεμβρίου του 2009, επί της προεδρείας της Michelle Bachelet, διατάχθηκε η εκταφή των οστών του Victor Jara για να ερευνηθούν οι ακριβείς συνθήκες του θανάτου του. Η χούντα είχε ρίξει το πτώμα του σε μαζικό τάφο αλλά αναγνωρίστηκε από κάποιους πολίτες και κηδεύτηκε κατόπιν παράνομα. Την δεύτερη κηδεία του ακολούθησε πλήθος κόσμου μετά από τρεις μέρες τιμητικών εκδηλώσεων. Φωτ. Depreda Gráfic.
Η Πρόεδρος της Χιλής, Michelle Bachelet, στην κηδεία του Victor Jara δίπλα στην Joan Turner. Φωτ. Depreda Gráfic και AP.
Φωτ. Depreda Gráfic.
Η κηδεία του Pablo Neruda και εικόνες από το Estadio Chile σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ της γαλλικής τηλεόρασης.
2011. Φόρος τιμής στον Salvador Allende και τον Victor Jara μπροστά στην είσοδο του Estadio Victor Jara (πρώην Estadio Chile), 38 χρόνια μετά από το πραξικόπημα του Pinochet. Φωτ. Stroboscope.
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