Editing Víctor Jara (section)

==Torture and murder==
[[File:Victor Jarra Nicha.jpg|thumb|Víctor Jara's grave in the General Cemetery of Santiago. The note reads: "Until victory..."]]
After the coup, Pinochet's soldiers rounded up Chileans who were believed to be involved with leftist groups, including Allende's Popular Unity party. On the morning of 12 September 1973, Jara was taken prisoner, along with thousands of others, and imprisoned inside [[Víctor Jara Stadium|Estadio Chile]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-09-fg-stadium9-story.html|title=Stadium's Renaming an Ode to Singer Martyred There|date=9 September 2003|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=12 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Jara|title=Victor Jara - Chilean musician|access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> Soon after, he was killed with a gunshot to the head, and his body was riddled with more than 40 bullets.<ref>Augustyn, Adam. "Victor Jara Chilean Musician." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, n.d. Web. 9 December 2015.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Victor-Jara</ref> According to the [[BBC]]:

<blockquote>There are many conflicting accounts of Jara's last days but the 2019 Netflix documentary ''[[ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium|Massacre at the Stadium]]'' pieces together a convincing narrative. As a famous musician and prominent supporter of Allende, Jara was swiftly recognised on his way into the stadium. An army officer threw a lit cigarette on the ground, made Jara crawl for it, then stamped on his wrists. Jara was first separated from the other detainees, then beaten and tortured in the bowels of the stadium. At one point, he defiantly sang "Venceremos (We Will Win)", Allende's 1970 election anthem, through split lips. On the morning of the 16th, according to a fellow detainee, Jara asked for a pen and notebook and scribbled the lyrics to "Estadio Chile", which were later smuggled out of the stadium: "How hard it is to sing when I must sing of horror. / Horror which I am living, horror which I am dying." Two hours later, he was shot dead, then his body was riddled with machine-gun bullets and dumped in the street. He was 40.<ref name="bbc.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200812-vctor-jara-the-folk-singer-murdered-for-his-music|title = Víctor Jara: The folk singer murdered for his music| date=13 August 2020 }}</ref></blockquote>

After his murder, Jara's body was displayed at the entrance of Chile Stadium for other prisoners to see. It was later discarded outside the stadium along with the bodies of other prisoners who had been killed by the Chilean Army.<ref name="Complaint: Jara v. Barriento">{{cite web|url=http://cja.org/downloads/COMPLAINT.9.4.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://cja.org/downloads/COMPLAINT.9.4.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live|title=Complaint: Jara v. Barriento|publisher=Official Florida court legal filing|access-date=5 September 2013}}</ref> His body was found by civil servants and brought to a morgue, where one of them was able to identify him and contact his wife, Joan. She took his body and gave him a quick and clandestine burial in the general cemetery before she fled the country into exile.

In July 2015, 42 years later, former Chilean military officers were charged with his murder.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Chilean military officers charged in 1973 murder of singer Víctor Jara |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/23/chile-military-officers-victor-jara-killing |access-date=23 July 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 July 2015}}</ref> In August 2023, a Chilean court confirmed a ruling convicting seven former soldiers, who were aged between 73 and 85 at the time of their sentencing, and sentencing them to jail terms from 8 up to 25 years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Presse |first=AFP-Agence France |title=Chilean Court Sends Elderly Ex-soldiers To Jail Over Singer's 1973 Murder |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/chilean-court-sends-elderly-ex-soldiers-to-jail-over-singer-s-1973-murder-947ce105 |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=www.barrons.com |language=en-US}}</ref>