I would say the killings and persecutions of the first few months were indiscriminate. Anybody and everybody that sounded, looked or whatever, were arrested and, and, and persecuted and, and so on.
My sister was at the university, who, it's an autonomous university, and so on, and it's always has been, at the forefront of radical politics in, in Chile. And in fact, because it was also a centre -- a cultural centre -- for the communities and so on, then, the military went in with tanks, into the university. And there was a massacre, especially of the women's dormitories, and, and, and so on, where my sister was living you see.
So I went to have a look the next day, how it was. And, to me it was like entering into a horror filmsetting, you know? There was blood everywhere in the dormitories, you know, the mattresses were all slashed and, and so on, you know, bits of hair and so on, stuck on the wall and blood all over. I thought my sister was killed, because I couldn't find her. And then, a few days later, I realised that she had gone into hiding. And, and, and so on.
And then you know, we all thought that, you know, we have to get out, of the country. Because, most of our peers, were in jail, in prison or killed, and, and so on and, so, my sister got out first, and oh yes, we couldn't go to the embassies in Santiago, because they were all full up, packed up.
There were Chileans camping in the gardens and so on, you know, in all the embassies, you know, people just jumping over the fence, to be there, with the coppers chasing them, you know, not getting hold of them. And, and so on. And I must say, you know, the solidarity shown by most of the countries that had embassies and consulates in Chile were very, very good. Otherwise, a hell of a lot of more people would have been murdered…
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