Qualla: Trelew Massacre https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/3/d/trelew-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Trelew Massacre https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre Trelew Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre/ Photo credit Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sixteen people were killed in the dark at a naval air base near Trelew, and for decades the men who killed them said it never happened the way the survivors swore it did. The dead were political prisoners - young militants of Argentina's revolutionary left, recaptured after a failed prison break and then, in the small hours of 22 August 1972, lined against a wall and gunned down. The military called it a thwarted escape. Three people lived through it to say otherwise. Their testimony, and a half-century pursuit of the truth, would eventually force the courts to call the killings what they were.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/3/d/trelew-massacre-wp/683d-trelew-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Trelew Massacre: The Break for Freedom https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre/ Photo credit Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0. It began as a meticulous plan. On the evening of 15 August 1972, a coordinated escape erupted at the prison in Rawson, the Chubut provincial capital, organized by imprisoned members of the ERP, the FAR, and the Montoneros. Six leaders reached Trelew's airport and boarded a hijack...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/3/d/trelew-massacre-wp/683d-trelew-massacre-the-break-for-freedom.mp3 0:06 2 full Trelew Massacre: A Promise Withheld https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre/ Photo credit Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0. It was a reasonable hope, and it failed. The prisoners asked to be returned to Rawson. Instead a patrol led them to the Almirante Zar naval air base, told them the move was temporary. The journalists, the judge, and the lawyers who had come as guarantors of their safety were turn...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/3/d/trelew-massacre-wp/683d-trelew-massacre-a-promise-withheld.mp3 0:06 3 full Trelew Massacre: The Hour Before Dawn https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre/ Photo credit Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0. At half past three on the morning of 22 August, the nineteen were woken from their cells and led out. According to the three who survived to testify, they were forced to lie face down and then shot by a detachment under Lieutenant Commander Luis Emilio Sosa and Lieutenant Roberto...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/8/3/d/trelew-massacre-wp/683d-trelew-massacre-the-hour-before-dawn.mp3 0:06 4 full Trelew Massacre: The Long Road to a Verdict https://qualla.com/trelew-massacre/ Photo credit Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0. The lie did not hold forever, though it held for a long time. That same night the government banned the press from even reporting on the dead. In the years that followed, the three survivors were themselves disappeared during the dictatorship that began in 1976, silenced before t...

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