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Colonia Dignidad — Decades of Abuse, Torture and Disappearance
Colonia Dignidad is a Chilean human rights mega-case involving child sexual abuse, forced disappearance, and political torture carried out inside a fortified German enclave in Parral from 1961 onward.
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder — The RAF Assassination in Düsseldorf, 1991
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, chairman of the Treuhand agency, was killed by RAF terrorists at his home in Düsseldorf on 1 April 1991. The assassination was the most high-profile terrorist attack in Germany in decades. His murder was never fully solved.
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