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National Stadium, A Prison Camp In Chile

Santiago, Chile. 12 January, 2019. Graderias of the Stadium joined to the hatch 8 that today is a place of memory, where it is read: "a town without memory is a town without future." Recovery work in hatch 8 of the National Stadium managed to expose the engravings and marks that are on its walls (messages, calendars, dates and initials), which were made by former prisoners, with keys, wires, glass and other elements that they found in the same hatchLa Escotilla 8 is one of the most significant memory sites inside the National Stadium located in the city of Santiago. The eighth hatch is a symbolic place, since from there the detainees could see and recognize their relatives waiting for news of their loved ones. While the site was used as a detention and torture center during the beginning of the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet. It was the largest detention center in Chile between September and November of 1973. place of detention of thousands of political detainees, where interrogations, torture, shootings and all kinds of humiliation to human dignity were carried out. During the use of the hatch 8 as a cell, the prisoners wrote and made marks on their walls, leaving testimony of their passage and of the time they had to live, in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Fernando Lavoz/NurPhoto)

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Photo ID	#3645976
Date Taken	12 January 2019
Location	N/A
Photographer	Fernando Lavoz/NurPhoto
Category	Human Interest
Copyright	© 2026 NurPhoto - Fernando Lavoz/NurPhoto

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