The Silence of Dawson Island, it’s a
Chilean short film directed by Alex Ribera, and the script was written by
Marcelo Guajardo. This movie wants to rescue events in our modern history, nineteenth
and twentieth century, also seeks to
inform the public about the existing assets in the area as Selk'nam cemetery,
the chapel San Rafael and concentration camps which operated between 1973 and
1974.
Dawson Island is located in the south tip
of Chile, exactly in the Estrectro de Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego, to 100
kilometers away south of Punta Arenas.
Tierra del Fuego was stained with blood,
from the arrival of foreign colonists who liquidated the Selknam, destroying
their culture, evangelizing and killing Aborigines.
The repression of the military coup of
1973, sent to ministers, parliamentarians, among others, as politicians prisoners
to Dawson Island, where they were tortured, humiliated, and inhumane practices
were generated by the military.
The Dawson Island Dawson became the
imprisonment of a divided country.
The island has a history of suffering,
death and repression.
Below is
the short film available
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