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This morning, the Chilean Army condemned the actions of protesters during the afternoon of this Friday in the Plaza Italia sector, where the statue of General Baquedano was set on fire.
The event, recorded at around 8:30 pm and which was also condemned by the government, occurred when around 600 people were in the “ground zero” of the capital protests.
The military institution indicated that it was a “Despicable attack”, and that those who committed it are “Misfit cowards” and “anti-Chilean, because they do not know history and in their ignorance, they are unable to discover the extraordinary contribution of General Baquedano together with thousands of Chilean soldiers they handed over to the country, by integrating extensive and valuable northern territories, which today make us proud and are very important for Chile ”.
“The antisocials who continually attack this figure, ignore that at his feet lies the grave of a Chilean soldier, like any of us, who could not be identified,” the statement continues, adding that he “represents thousands of compatriots who died anonymously for the homeland and that they could never return to Chile ”.
The Army, as on other occasions when Baquedano’s statue was vandalized, reiterated its request to move the structure to another location, which was previously rejected by the National Monuments Council. “Today it is urgent to submit it to repairs and to restore it properly, so that it recovers the dignity that such an important figure in national history deserves,” he added.
The institution made a call to all sectors “Regardless of their political, social or religious condition” to condemn “unambiguously the attacks that affect the national soul”, and closed the statement noting that “A people that does not recognize or value its history, that precisely allows it to have a present, will hardly be projected into a better future.”
