Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first sign that something was seriously amiss came in 1966 when Wolfgang Muller, then 20, escaped from Colonia Dignidad for the third time and begged the West German embassy in Santiago not to send him back for fear he would be killed. Muller, who now lives in West Germany under a different name, claimed that Schafer had molested him when he was twelve. He told of regular beatings and the use of electroshock and narcotics by camp doctors, and described Schafer as a dictator who condones drug experiments and torture and enforces hard labor from sunup to sundown...
...colony again became the object of international attention in 1976, when a United Nations human rights commission report identified the camp as one of Chile's detention centers. The next year the West German branch of Amnesty International denounced Colonia Dignidad as a DINA torture center. The colony responded by launching a defamation suit in West Germany against Amnesty International, a legal dispute that continues today...
...nearby river. U.S. officials consider the case still open. The Pinochet government has given the colony its tacit support. West Germany, for its part, has been reluctant to speak out against Schafer in the past because of close ties between Colonia Dignidad and officials at the West German embassy in Santiago...
That reluctance has begun to fade. Last fall, in connection with the Amnesty case, a West German judge asked the Chilean courts to arrange an inspection tour of the colony. Last week the managing director of Amnesty International's West German section announced in Parral that inspections of the surrounding terrain have so far supported testimony by former DINA prisoners who claim they were taken to Colonia Dignidad to be tortured. During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside...
...assault on Nowa Huta, where about half the work force of 32,000 had joined the ten-day-old strike, began at 2 a.m. Thursday. The West German press agency D.P.A., which had the only Western reporter on the scene, said four buses carried several dozen secret police inside the plant. The commandos stunned the strikers, many of whom were sleeping, with concussion and flash grenades...