Sexual Political Violence and State Terrorism in Chile

 In 2018, the Feminist Tsunami prompted new research on sexual violence and human rights violations carried out under the Chilean dictatorship between 1973 and 1990. Although cases of sexual political violence, rape, and torture had been reported by political prisoners, especially women, since 1973 and were thus known to be part of the dictatorship’s repressive practices, the justice system did not deal with these issues in the first decade of the return to democracy. In 2003, 40 years on from the coup that installed the Pinochet regime, the launch of a second truth commission, known as the Valech Commission, renewed discussions on dictatorship-era crimes against humanity. In the second decade of the 21st Century, the latest research and studies on sexual political violence appeared as part of the new wave of Feminist studies.

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