“How will it be so much?” [i]
Given the disbelief of the judges that torture had become a systematic practice in Chile, fifty people appeared at the Supreme Court so that the Honorable Ones could see the faces of those who had literally suffered it firsthand.
It was January 1974 and lawyer Andrés Aylwin (1925-2018), deputy for San Bernardo until the closure of Parliament after the civil-military coup, wanted the judges to know the consequences of his denial of the amparo appeals that detailed the abuses. .[ii] However, the judges were still unmoved.
Since the end of September 1973, before the creation of the Pro Peace Committee, from his small office half a block from the courts, the brother of former president Patricio Aylwin, the first appeals for protection were filed to protect detained people. Through this office, with the collaboration of young lawyers, from very early on, the judges were aware of the practice of torture.
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