Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende in Chile, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of Magellan, near the southern tip of the country. The island had been used as an extermination camp by a Catholic order between 1891 and 1911, and confined the Selk’nam and Kawésqar peoples, who died due to overcrowding, the spread of disease and the cold.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/chile-50-years-after-coup-looking-back-first-year-popular-unity
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