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A memory of Paine: in June of 2004 the relatives of the disappeared political prisoners of Paine, a rural town 50 kilometres south of Santiago, began work on a memorial in honour of their loved ones. Carmen Rodriguez talks to some of them.(TRUTH COMMISSIONS)

From: New Internationalist  |  Date: 12/1/2005  |  Author: Rodriguez, Carmen

'My dad would be very proud of our mosaic: we're showing the good part of who he was, not the sadness that remains with us,' explains Maria Amparo Gaete. More than 30 years after her father was abducted, Maria has joined with other families in their small community to erect a memorial for the missing. Her father, Luis Alberto Gaete Balmaceda, disappeared at age 21, a few weeks before she was born.

'He loved to play the guitar, so we decided to draw a guitar. Inside it, we put our ...

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