Pablo Isaac Rodríguez Leal
Estudiante — 18 years old.
Background
Pablo Isaac Rodríguez Leal
Estudiante — 18 years old.
Case summary
Pablo Isaac Rodriguez Leal, an 18-year-old student, was detained and forcibly disappeared by Investigaciones agents on November 15, 1981, in Santiago. His detention, along with that of another young man, occurred on a public street as a violent reaction by the officials to an ironic comment made while he was with a group of friends.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On November 15, 1981, around 8:30 p.m., while a group of ten young people were on Avenida Departamental in Santiago, in a public thoroughfare, they were intercepted by a Investigaciones de Chile pickup truck, from which four civilians armed with submachine guns emerged. They threatened to take the young people into custody if they did not leave the area.
One of the young men ironically replied to the officers that they would not all fit in the truck. This irritated the detectives, who reacted violently by beating the young man and ultimately taking Hipólito ZUÑIGA ADASME and Pablo RODRIGUEZ LEAL into custody. Both have been forcibly disappeared since that time.
The Commission reached the conviction that both individuals disappeared at the hands of state agents, who thereby violated their human rights.
MemoriaViva[2]
Relatos de los Hechos
On November 15, 1981, at approximately 20:30 hours, while a group of ten young people were on Av. Departamental in Santiago, in a public thoroughfare, they were intercepted by a pickup truck belonging to Investigaciones de Chile.
Four civilians armed with submachine guns stepped out of the vehicle and threatened to take the young people into custody if they did not leave the area. One of the young men ironically replied to the officials that they would not all fit in the truck.
This irritated the detectives, who reacted violently by beating the young man and ultimately taking Hipólito ZUÑIGA ADASME and Pablo RODRIGUEZ LEAL into custody. Both have been forcibly disappeared ever since. The Commission formed the conviction that both individuals disappeared at the hands of state agents, who thereby violated their human rights.
Source: (Rettig Report)
Relatos de los Hechos
The book "Breaking the silence of children and adolescents who were victims of political executions during the civic-military dictatorship 1973-1990" incorporates testimonies, photographs, letters, and other documents that families and friends provided or wrote specifically for publication.
The book was produced by the Association of Relatives of Political Executions (AFEP) with the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, through the Culture, Memory, and Human Rights Unit, and the Human Rights Chair of the Universidad de Chile.
The publication, based primarily on the Report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1991) and the Report of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (1996), seeks to reconstruct each of the victims' lives and stories in a comprehensive and careful manner.
During the research, access was granted to the archive of the Association of Relatives of Political Executions, where documents that families have preserved over the years are kept. Illustrations by Álvaro Gómez were also included.
The creation process was a complex challenge that involved combining delicacy, respect, and methodological rigor to articulate a painful and inescapable truth in this work.
Source: Cultura.gob.cl 20/4/2023
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=1919
- 2