Colonia Dignidad
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Saturday July 12, 2008
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The founder of a religious cult whose followers thought he was “God on earth” has been sentenced for torturing children.He preached an unnamed religion that said harsh discipline would draw them closer to the supreme being.
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Wednesday September 6, 2006
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Villa Baviera, the name now given to Chile’s famous cult colony Colonia Dignidad, may soon be no more than just a memory: the colony’s population has now dropped to only 198 residents. As many as 1,000 (mostly German) colonists once inhabited the colony’s compound.
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Tuesday August 29, 2006
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- The jailed leader of a commune-like German colony in southern Chile was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for arms possession.
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Monday July 24, 2006
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SANTIAGO, Chile--At least 22 dissidents who disappeared under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet were killed at a secretive German commune and their bodies later burned with chemicals, the government-owned La Nacion newspaper reported Sunday.
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Monday July 3, 2006
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VILLA BAVIERA, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of German immigrants who once belonged to a secretive religious sect in southern Chile watched a televised football match for the first time on Friday when Germany beat Argentina in the World Cup.
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Friday May 26, 2006
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85-year-old preacher is also accused of letting General Pinochet use colony to torture enemies
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Thursday May 25, 2006
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SANTIAGO -- The leader of a now-dismantled colony founded by German immigrants in southern Chile was convicted of sexually abusing 25 children and sentenced to 20 years in jail.
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SANTIAGO - The German leader of a former religious cult in Chile has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexual abuse of 25 children, local media has reported.
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Thursday April 20, 2006
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Former members of a German cult based on a communal farm in southern Chile on Wednesday issued a public apology and asked for forgiveness for 40 years of child sex and human rights abuses.
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Thursday April 13, 2006
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A Chilean judge has indicted 18 people linked to a former German colony in southern Chile over human rights abuses committed during military rule.
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Wednesday January 4, 2006
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Chilean officials have discovered an old grave on the property of a secretive German cult where opponents to the nation's 17-year dictatorship may have been buried after being tortured and killed.
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A Chilean judge is investigating the discovery of an unmarked grave in a German enclave in the south of Chile.
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Wednesday December 28, 2005
Colonia Dignidad:
A German doctor is in custody after allegedly admitting she tortured a number of children at Colonia Dignidad, a secretive religious colony in Chile.
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Wednesday October 12, 2005
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30 Prisoners "Disappeared" By Pinochet’s Military Regime May Finally Be Found
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Sunday June 19, 2005
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The authorities in Chile searching for victims of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship who are said to be buried at the enclave of a secretive, apocalyptic religious cult of German émigrés have unearthed a large cache of weapons and intelligence files.
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Friday June 17, 2005
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Weapons Prove Colony’s Complicity During Dictatorship, Government Says
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Thursday June 16, 2005
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean officials have discovered a cache of machine guns and rocket-launchers on the property of a secretive German cult, one of the biggest weapons finds in the South American country's history.
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Monday May 16, 2005
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VILLA BAVIERA, Chile - The disembodied voice of a woman speaking Spanish with a heavy German accent echoes from behind the one-way mirror at the guardhouse. "You can go in now," she says, and the white metal gates to Colonia Dignidad, the secretive paramilitary religious sect that took refuge here in the foothills of the Andes more than 40 years ago, slowly swing open.
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Friday April 1, 2005
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SANTIAGO - A Chilean judge has indicted five people who helped a German while he was hiding in Argentina as he faced numerous allegations of human rights abuses and sexual abuse in Chile, press reports said on Thursday.
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Tuesday March 22, 2005
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SANTIAGO, Chile, March 21 (Reuters) - Ex-cult leader Paul Schaefer, a German citizen accused of aiding the secret police during Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship, was charged on Monday in the disappearance of a second political prisoner and with sexually abusing 26 children.
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Saturday March 19, 2005
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SANTIAGO - A Chilean judge on Thursday indicted former Nazi soldier Paul Schaefer, leader and founder of the "Colonia Dignidad" cult and commune, in the disappearance of a leftist from the community.
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Wednesday March 16, 2005
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Former Nazi and cult leader Paul Schaefer has been questioned by a judge in Chile over the disappearance of a left-wing activist in 1974.
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Monday March 14, 2005
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SANTIAGO - The former head of a secretive German colony in southern Chile was flown to Santiago early Sunday after his arrest in Argentina.
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Sunday March 13, 2005
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Argentina is to deport a former Nazi to Chile, where he is wanted on charges of sexually abusing children.
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Saturday March 12, 2005
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A former Nazi and fugitive child abuser, Paul Schaefer, has been taken to hospital in Argentina, a day after his arrest ended eight years in hiding.
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