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WINNIPEG (CUP) - There is no limit to the bru- tality human beings can in- flict upon each other.

This the message brought to students by Car- men Gloria Quintana, a Chilean human rights tivist. Quintana is travel- ling across Canada, funded by her parents, to tell her story and raise awareness of the plight of the Chilean peo- ple.

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Quintana was arrestéd with a friend in 1984 when military police in Chile at- tacked a group’ protesting against the regime of Au- gusto Pinochet. She was 16 years old at the time.

“I went out on a work stoppage with a group of friends. A patrol truck full of soldiers with their faces painted black followed us and threw us. down. They beat us, laughed at us. Another truck full of military men in civilian clothes drove up, beat us and took pictures,” said Quintana through an in- terpreter.

“After that they took gas

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me in the mouth with a ri- fle butt and knocked out my

i teeth,” said Quintana.

and poured it from head to toe on myself. They were laughing at us; I never un-

derstood why.”

“They threw fire at me as I tried to remove gas from my mouth and they laughed.

_ When I tried to put out the

flames, one of the soldiers hit

the vio- lence which is common under Chile’s state of siege under Pinochet’s dictatorship. She

as a target of

other university students. Canadian loans and mil-

itary sales to Chile create

a concern for Quintana and

Quintana and another victim, Rodrigo Rojas, were later taken to hospital by a

Chilean refugees Canada.

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passing worker. Rojas died of his injuries, and Quin- tana was flown to Montreal to be treated for third degree burns over 62 per cent of her body.

“In the beginning it was very hard for me to speak

| of what happened, but little

, by little I've become accus-

' tomed to doing it and I’ve taken it as my role to do so,” she said.

The of the Chilean military responsible for Rojas’ death were never brought to trial and the com- mander of the troops volved was released with a $25 fine.

on really hoped justice would be done. Jus-

members

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tice in Chile is carried out the way the wants it to be,” she said.

government

Quintana said she does

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