At 11am of yesterday’s morning the Vergara Toledo family and human rights activists joined together to denunce to the comunity the killers of Eduardo and Rafael. Police answered with repression.

On March 29, 1985, two brothers, Eduardo Antonio and Rafael Maurico VERGARA TOLEDO, both of whom were MIR activists, were killed. The newspaper reported that, “On March 29, 1985, at 7:45 p.m. in the area of Las Rejas near Cinco de Abril, three armed criminals attempting to rob a store were caught by police who were patrolling in a van. Having been frustrated, the thieves fought back, and there followed a brief exchange of fire in which police Corporal Marcel Muñoz Cifuentes was wounded, as were Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo. The latter two died on the spot. The third criminal managed to escape.”

The evidence gathered by the Commission, including the autopsy reports, enables it to state that both brothers died of multiple trauma from bullet wounds, and that the body of Rafael Vergara had a bullet wound to the back of the neck fired at short range, which was the ultimate cause of his death. The Commission has come to the conviction that Rafael Vergara was executed by government agents when he was already wounded and in the power of his killers, and thus in violation of his human rights. The Commission was unable to determine exactly how the shooting took place, nor how Eduardo Vergara was involved, and thus has determined that he died as a result of the situation of political violence. (source).

Four police officers were involved directly in the murder of Vergara brothers, 3 of them are in preventive jail and the other one is a fugitive; but in the current chilean justice system they can recover their freedom paying some money or get tiny sentences. That’s why it was needed to do this action.

Every 29 of March, the combatant youth remember all the young people killed by the state, and take the streets to show their rage against the police.

Luisa Toledo

Luisa asking “why?” to a police officer

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