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In 1972, 4000 Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles were brought from Cuba and stored in the offices of the Socialist Party presided by Allende, using diplomatic pouches for their transportation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elpaisonline.cl/verdad-historica-new/1970-marxismo-al-poder/75-allende-asesinatos-y-violencia-para-imponer-el-socialismo-a-sangre-y-fuego|title=Allende, asesinatos y violencia para imponer el socialismo a sangre y fuego|author=Juan E. Pflüger|date=June 24, 2016|language=es}}</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/aprachile/status/1437017349631193089?lang=es]</ref>
In 1972, 4000 Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles were brought from Cuba and stored in the offices of the Socialist Party presided by Allende, using diplomatic pouches for their transportation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elpaisonline.cl/verdad-historica-new/1970-marxismo-al-poder/75-allende-asesinatos-y-violencia-para-imponer-el-socialismo-a-sangre-y-fuego|title=Allende, asesinatos y violencia para imponer el socialismo a sangre y fuego|author=Juan E. Pflüger|date=June 24, 2016|language=es}}</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/aprachile/status/1437017349631193089?lang=es]</ref>
===Torture during the Allende Regime and Violation of Human Rights===
Illegitimate arrests of political opponents were a common practice during the Popular Unity government. That is why the Agreement of the Chamber of Deputies of August 22, 1973 contemplated them in a separate paragraph as one of the reasons for requesting the intervention of the armed forces to "put an end to the existing de facto situations".
Numerous public figures were subjected to torture, among them the then director of the Santa Cruz newspaper "El Condor", Maximiano Errazuriz, at the hands of detectives of Investigaciones in 1972, which he described in his book "Maximiano, Perdón y Olvido" (Maximiano, Forgiveness and Oblivion).
The pressures decisively undermined the health of the announcer of Minería Radio and Channel 13, Carlos de la Sotta, imprisoned for the case of interference, during the Popular Unity government, to the transmissions of Channel 13 in [[Concepción]].
But the case that attracted most attention was that of the president of the National Party Youth and Vice President of the party, Juan Luis Ossa Bulnes, whose letter referring to them was published by "El Mercurio" on January 23, 1972, in the following terms:
"Accuses J. L. Ossa:
"My tortures in the hands of the police".
"Juan Luis Ossa Bulnes, vice-president of the National Party and president of its Youth has sent us a communication in which he exposes the main facts regarding the torture he suffered at the hands of the police in the barracks of the Prefecture of Investigations of Rancagua. Below is the full text of his letter:
"Mr. Director: With the purpose of truthfully informing the public opinion and rectifying some sensationalist rumors, I take the liberty of requesting the publication of these lines, which contain an objective exposition of the main facts related to the torture I suffered, at the hands of detectives, last January 13, in the barracks of the Prefecture of Investigations of Rancagua.
"On Wednesday, January 12, I was detained, together with my two companions, Mr. Pablo Moraga and Mr. Ricardo Sepúlveda, by carabineros at the Angostura Toll Plaza, who stated that the car in which we were traveling (my property) had been ordered for theft.
"After a long wait, we were taken by detectives to the Rancagua Prefecture of Investigations, where we remained incommunicado until the following day. The transfer to that city was made in the midst of great publicity, since several television cameramen and numerous journalists of the Popular Unity and even, it was said, the Communist deputy (Jorge) Insunza, hurried to Angostura.
"Bandages on the Eyes.
"Arrived at the Investigaciones de Rancagua barracks, and after a short time, I was taken to the second floor of the building. There, at the top of the corresponding staircase, I was surprisingly blindfolded and, after being forced to turn repeatedly in a circle to provoke an incipient dizziness, I was taken to a room located at the opposite end of the staircase, on one side of the building. The next day I noticed, from the courtyard, that this room corresponded to one located under the water tanks of the barracks and exhibited frosted glass in the window overlooking the courtyard.
"Handcuffed.
"Then I was seated in a wooden armchair with wide arms, and tightly bound to it by wrists and ankles, after placing pads.
"Then, still blindfolded, I was interrogated by several persons whose identity I do not know and whose voices I would find it difficult to recognize. I should point out that, at that moment, I thought I was testifying before a lie detector device.
"After about ten minutes of the 'friendly' interrogation, I was told that they were fully aware of my status as a lawyer, Vice President of the National Party and President of the National Youth, as well as my social ties and influences, adding that I would be made to 'sing' and that my statements would involve my Party and its leaders and headquarters. These warnings, delivered in the midst of coarse insults, were followed by the announcement that I would be subjected to electric current and that, later, I would be thrown into a dungeon to be outraged by common criminals. This psychological pressure culminated in the brazen assertion that, undoubtedly I would later reveal the details of the announced torture, but would not be able to prove it reliably.
"Application of Electricity.
"They then proceeded to loosen pate of my clothes and to place a pole above my left ear - over my skull - and another in my groin; I was then tightly gagged, with a cloth inserted between my teeth."During the next forty minutes or so, I received no less than 20 applications of electricity, some very brief, others of a duration which I might estimate at half a minute each, or more.
"After a few minutes and as it was impossible for me to answer the many questions put to me, because I was gagged, I was instructed that when I wanted to 'sing,' to raise the fingers of one hand as a sign of my purpose.
"The questions had a marked political intent. Attempts were made, among other things, to get me to affirm that I was involved in the formation of armed groups and in seditious and terrorist activities; to get me to link my party with the Movimiento Patria y Libertad and Pablo Rodriguez; to admit my alleged participation in the attack on the monument to Ernesto Guevara and in the recent shooting of the Intendant of Llanquihue, etc.
"The effects of the application of the aforementioned electric shocks are, literally speaking, indescribable.
"Whoever has not experienced them cannot form an exact impression of the integral physical pain (not localized in a specific part of the body, but generalized) and of the tremendous moral anguish that they provoke.
"Under their effects the muscles spontaneously spring into action and the body of the victim undergoes all sorts of convulsions and spasms; rapid dehydration occurs as a sequel to copious perspiration; all sorts of groans and screams break out, drowned by the gag, which has the double object of stifling the groans and of preventing the destruction of the tongue and teeth in consequence of the intense chattering of the teeth; and part of the hair is immediately lost, at least in my case.
"Agony of Death.
"Besides all this, however, the victim experiences a moral anguish which, I believe, must be similar to that of the agony of death, inasmuch as it is thought that death will necessarily ensue, and, what is more, it is desired as a means of putting an end to the suffering.
"Exhausted, after each application I would involuntarily lean forward, at which opportunities I received a new short electric shock, with the warning to keep upright in the armchair.
"Physical Pain.
"On the other hand, and as unusual as it may seem, mental lucidity is not lost, in spite of physical pain and psychological anguish. And if it is lost, the affected person does not notice it, at least in my case.
"After about 40 minutes of periodically experiencing the coercion already described, I was stripped of the ligatures and taken to another room. There the blindfold was removed and, handcuffed, I awaited lying on the floor the new interrogation, this time 'friendly', which was practiced later in the presence of two officials.
"This procedure was carried out for about five hours, according to the usual procedure, but I was still under physical and psychological pressure due to the suffering I had experienced and the fear that it would be repeated. In this new interrogation the two officials already mentioned participated permanently and also occasionally and sporadically the Deputy Director of Investigations, Carlos Toro, intervened, who did not manifest himself interested in listening to this new statement but only in my admitting that the National Youth organizes armed groups, which I refused to do.
"The statement I signed at the end of this new interrogation reflects, in part, the statements made by me in the first and, as I said, it was made under the weight of fear, exhaustion and uncertainty about my immediate future".
A writ of amparo had been filed in Ossa's favor, but the judge who heard the case did not order his release, but rather his transfer to the Rancagua prison, where he was interrogated by another judge, who was hearing a government complaint for violations of the Internal Security Law of the State. Before both magistrates Ossa referred to the torments he had suffered, but without any reaction from them. Ossa remained deprived of his liberty from Wednesday, January 12 to Saturday, January 15, 1972, without any reason to justify it.
The Allende government had no reaction to the publication of the tortures inflicted on the opposition youth leader, and Deputy Director Carlos Toro, a communist, remained at his post, immovable, and probably reflecting on how to improve his interrogation methods so that the new detainees he had arrested would really say what he wanted to hear them say.<ref name=NiVerdadNiReconciliacion/>
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