being buried in secret during the dictatorship, his remains returned to the cemetery where he was exhumed.
AFP and DPA
Posted: 05/12/2009 12:17
Santiago. Thousands of Chileans carrying flags and red carnations on Saturday to attend the procession down the main streets of Santiago to bury the singer Victor Jara, executed 36 years ago by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The procession went past 10 pm local time (13H00 GMT) from the Victor Jara Foundation, located in the central Plaza Brazil in the Chilean capital, where on Thursday were veiled from the remains of a folklorist, unearthed last six months by a warrant.
of about 3 thousand people, according to press reports, the convoy moved along the main streets of Santiago, to the General Cemetery in the Chilean capital, where in an intimate ceremony will finally buried the remains of Jara.
"Comrade Victor Jara, present, now and always, to achieve truth and justice, always," chanted the thousands of attendees to the late homage to one of the best examples of Chilean popular song, riddled with 44 bullets in the early Pinochet's dictatorship in September 1973.
His remains were transferred in a sober gray hearse, accompanied by his widow, Joan Turner British, and their daughters, Manuela and Amanda. Members of the foundation that bears his name also accompanied the coffin as well as the policy of the Communist Party, which militated Jara.
Before arriving at the cemetery you will pay a final tribute to the author of songs like "I remember you, Amanda" or "cigarette" in a scenario that is mounted on Avenida Recoleta. Inside the cemetery, the ceremony will be private, said Gloria Konig, director of the Victor Jara Foundation.
The funeral ceremony, which began on Thursday with a large wake, occurs when Justice does not yet identify The Prince, the army officer playing Russian roulette, led the strafing of the artist.
singer-praised on Friday by President Michelle Bachelet, who attended his wake-rest finally in the same modest niche where he was secretly buried on September 18, 1973.
Victor Jara was a communist intellectual who supported the socialist government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973), ousted in a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, who died in 2006.
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