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The Daughter
 
The violence consisted in finding corpses everywhere, because they left them along the road. But I never imagined that I personally should experience all that. We saw a lot of corpses. Corpses, corpses everywhere. On the road, on the top, sometimes on the bridge, sometimes at the entrance, even down there they left corpses.  
 
     In 1981 - October the 23rd. when the armed men arrived, they surrounded the house at 4:20 in the afternoon and took my father. We don't know why. We have never found out why - nor who was really responsible in the community for reporting that my father was a guerrillero.  
 
     My father regrettably... the only offence he committed was to praise the truth, to speak about democracy, to speak about justice, about peace. That was what he did. But they carried him off, they took him and we have never ever found out where he ended up.  
 
     It's very hard. Because to live through such things is horrible. When they carried him off, it was my brothers' graduation day, and he wasn't present. We had prepared a big party and had invited a lot of people. But no graduation ball. Instead we shared the pain.  
 
     Those who came to take him were the G2, a branch of the army. They had IDs and said that they had orders to pick him up, but that he would come back. He never came back.  
 
     He had always talked about that... the day they carry me off, that day I'll die. It's not going to be a quiet death, I know that. Because I'm going to suffer, because many are locked up in a cold dungeon he said. They chop off your fingers, force you to stand on live coal, cut off your tongue. We know that he died that way.  
 
 
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