In 1989 Simple Minds dedicated Street Fighting Years track to Victor Jara.That same year, the Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk released an album of Jara songs translated into Swedish, Cornelis sjunger Victor Jara ('Cornelis sings Victor Jara'). It was directed by Jara's friend Dean Reed, who also played the part of Jara. An East German biographical movie called El Cantor ('The Singer') was made in 1978.The anthology For Neruda, for Chile contains a section called 'The Chilean Singer', with poems dedicated to Jara.Titled 'An Evening With Salvador Allende', the concert featured Ochs, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie. The American folk singer Phil Ochs, who met and performed with Jara during a tour of South America, organized a benefit concert in his memory in New York in 1974.On 22 September 1973, less than two weeks after Jara's death, the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh named a newly found asteroid 2644 Víctor Jara.Rolling Stone named him one of the fifteen top protest artists.Since his death, Jara has been honored in numerous ways: Barrientos knew, or should have known, about these attacks, if for no other reason than that he was present for and participated in them.
The arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Jara and other detainees were part of a widespread, systematic attack on civilians by the Chilean Army from 11–15 September 1973.Throughout his detention in the locker room of the stadium, Jara was in the physical custody of Lieutenant Barrientos, soldiers under his command, or other members of the Chilean Army who acted in accordance with the army's plan to commit human rights abuses against civilians.He then transferred Jara, along with some of the other civilians, to the stadium. Captain Polanco separated Jara from the group and beat him severely. In the course of transporting and processing the civilian prisoners, Captain Fernando Polanco Gallardo, a commanding officer in military intelligence, recognized Jara as the well-known folk singer whose songs addressed social inequality, and who had supported President Allende's government.Víctor Jara was among those arbitrarily detained on the campus and was subsequently transferred to Chile Stadium, where he was tortured and killed. During the afternoon of 12 September 1973, military personnel entered the university and illegally detained hundreds of professors, students, and administrators.
The troops prohibited civilians from entering or leaving the university premises.
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