• The Pisagua Case is the name given to the legal actions taken surrounding the crimes that occurred in the torture center and prison camp installed in the...
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  • Pisagua may refer to: Pisagua, Chile, which was Pisagua, Peru before 1884. Bombardment of Pisagua, 1879 Pisagua internment camp, Pisagua, Chile The Pisagua...
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    The Pisagua internment camp (Spanish: Campamento de Prisioneros de Pisagua) was a concentration camp in Pisagua, Chile. An isolated location in northern...
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  • an eye, but survives. 31 March – Death of Jonathan Moyle 31 May – The Pisagua case begins. 19 July – The political party Union of the Centrist Center is...
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    cousins (and others sisters, and female cousins)’ Pisabo, also known as Pisagua (Pisahua), is a purported Panoan language spoken by approximately 600 people...
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    of punishment were intended to humiliate the prisoners severely. At the Pisagua Concentration Camp, captors intimidated prisoners by forcing them to crawl...
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    artillery regiments ReA-2 "BOLÍVAR" (1st MECHANIZED BRIGADE) and RA-3 "PISAGUA" (3rd ARMY DIVISION). During World War II, the Chinese army received twelve...
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    sugar. Piscola Blanca, a variation of Piscola in Chile with clear sodas. Pisagua Chilean Pisco with carbonated water. Pischela, another variation of Chilean...
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    northwards as planned after the fall of Pisagua, Daza, coming from Arica, decided in Camarones (44 km from Pisagua) to give up his part of the counterattack...
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    consent was necessary for the agreement to proceed and, if that was the case, then he should have also known that the Peruvians would not agree to it;...
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    Sinking of the Titanic (category 1910s missing person cases)
    warned that "what was a mistake in the case of the Titanic would without doubt be negligence in any similar case in the future". The disaster led to major...
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    Videla government also arrested communist leaders and interned them in the Pisagua prison camp in January 1948. In 1958, after a long parliamentary debate...
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    opponents. In order to support amphibious operations during the landing in Pisagua (1879) by carrying significant quantities of cargo, and landing troops...
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    but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it was occupied by a...
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    Caldera; see below). Further construction proceeded apace linking cities from Pisagua all the way to Puerto Montt. In addition, there was a network on the big...
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    which had chartered the Itata to the congressionalist authorities, brought a case against the United States for the ship's detention, claiming the ship had...
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    capital, did not appear for 3 years. The Army was purged, and in several cases the seniority was ignored. Officers loyal to Pierola were put in charge...
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    the UK Government's Marine Accident Investigation Branch re-examined the case and while condemning the inaction of the Californian and Captain Lord, also...
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    Battle of the Caribbean. From 1943 to 1945, the Chilean prison camp of Pisagua became the site of wartime internment for citizens of enemy nations. Chile...
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    of the country during the saltpetre boom, in the ports of Iquique and Pisagua. The "King of Saltpetre", John Thomas North, was the principal tycoon of...
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    say Condell attempted to escape the Iquique battle, but that can't be the case as the Covadonga had half the speed of the Independencia, making it unlikely...
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    what it needed on the ships, plus a five per cent profit margin. In the case of the Olympic-class ships, a cost of £3 million (approximately £370 million...
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    of this war took place during the Battle of Pisagua when 2,100 Chilean troops successfully took Pisagua from 1,200 Peruvian and Bolivian defenders on...
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    citizens. The USA considered going to war with the Central Powers, in which case it would seize their ships in ports that it controlled, including Prinz Oskar...
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  • Bolivia (already an ally of Peru since 1873) tried to dispose of Arica and Pisagua, signing treaties with Brazil in 1878. There was also a Bolivian political...
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    to the north and west. With the advantage of hindsight, there is a strong case to argue that the Chilean attack was poorly planned, since, despite being...
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    Treaty of Lima (1929) (category Arbitration cases)
    Iquique Battle of Punta Gruesa Battle of Angamos Amphibious Battle of Pisagua Land Battles Land campaign of the War of the Pacific Battle of Topater...
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    letters allocated to a ship remained with that ship, although there are known cases where new code letters have been allocated following a change of port of...
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    with its determination to file a case with the International Court of Justice on 24 April 2013. Surprisingly, the case did not challenge the border treaties...
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    than 20,000 persons from the electoral registers. The detention center in Pisagua, used during Ibañez's dictatorship (and which would also be used during...
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