Victor Jara will be buried after 36 years
Saturday, November 28, 2009. Quito. The family of singer and theater director Chilean Victor Jara will honor his memory December 5 in a mass funeral that the artist could not have when he was killed by soldiers shortly after the coup against President Salvador Allende in 1973.
Jara's remains will be returned to their families again. This occurs after an expert examination, ordered by the judge investigating the crime, found more than 30 gunshot wounds and torture marks on the bones of Jara.
Following the exhumation of the body, ordered by Judge Juan Fuentes, his remains were analyzed by specialists from the Legal Medical Service (SML). Samples of their DNA and their families were sent to the Genetic Institute of Innsbruck in Austria, where he confirmed his identity.
SML medical report states that the remains of Jara have "multiple fractures and gunshot wounds that caused hemorrhagic shock in a context of homicide. Some of the bone lesions were caused by blunt objects."
The wake of the singer will begin on Thursday, December 3 acts of homage that is spread throughout the day and night without interruption until Saturday at the downtown theater that bears his name.
36 years ago, in September 1973, during the first days of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the singer was killed and his semi-clandestine funeral attended only by his widow, Joan Jara and two friends.
Jara, who was active in the Communist Party, was taken prisoner by the military in the State Technical University, where he worked, and remained with 600 students and professors to defend the government of Allende.
The singer was taken to Estadio Chile, today named Victor Jara, where after torturing him shot him in the basement of the place, throwing his body and those of other victims along the wall of a cemetery in the south of the capital. Jara
be buried in the cemetery of Santiago. The procession will march on foot on Saturday from the Jara Foundation to the cemetery.
Jara's remains will be returned to their families again. This occurs after an expert examination, ordered by the judge investigating the crime, found more than 30 gunshot wounds and torture marks on the bones of Jara.
Following the exhumation of the body, ordered by Judge Juan Fuentes, his remains were analyzed by specialists from the Legal Medical Service (SML). Samples of their DNA and their families were sent to the Genetic Institute of Innsbruck in Austria, where he confirmed his identity.
SML medical report states that the remains of Jara have "multiple fractures and gunshot wounds that caused hemorrhagic shock in a context of homicide. Some of the bone lesions were caused by blunt objects."
The wake of the singer will begin on Thursday, December 3 acts of homage that is spread throughout the day and night without interruption until Saturday at the downtown theater that bears his name.
36 years ago, in September 1973, during the first days of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the singer was killed and his semi-clandestine funeral attended only by his widow, Joan Jara and two friends.
Jara, who was active in the Communist Party, was taken prisoner by the military in the State Technical University, where he worked, and remained with 600 students and professors to defend the government of Allende.
The singer was taken to Estadio Chile, today named Victor Jara, where after torturing him shot him in the basement of the place, throwing his body and those of other victims along the wall of a cemetery in the south of the capital. Jara
be buried in the cemetery of Santiago. The procession will march on foot on Saturday from the Jara Foundation to the cemetery.
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