PRISON
Horror tour
A former torture chamber in Buenos Aires has been preserved as a memorial to the victims of a brutal, right-wing dictatorship
- Published: 24/01/2012 at 09:09 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
Hooded, tortured, handcuffed, chained by their feet to the wall _ that's the way prisoners at the Navy Mechanical School were kept at a notorious secret detention centre during the 1976-83 military dictatorship in Argentina.
The basement where prisoners were tortured.
Amid the horror they experienced, the detainees were aware of the bell ringing next door at a school. On one side there was pain, suffering and death. On the other, children playing, laughter, the school bell, the sound of a ball bouncing in the yard: the noises of life.
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- Writer: Astrid Riehn
