Here Violeta Morales depicts a demonstration against torture by the group Movement Against Torture Sebastián Acevedo (MCTSA), of which she was co-ordinator.
The anti torture movement came into being in September, 1983, ten years after the regime took power, when around 70 people unfurled a banner which read "Torturing Done Here" in front of the headquarters of the National Civil Police Centre in Santiago.
On November 11 of that same year, Sebastián Acevedo Becerra, in despair following the arrest of his children Galo and María, whom he feared would be tortured by the secret police, publicly set himself alight. Such was the impact of his action on the Movement Against Torture that it henceforth became known as the Movement Against Torture Sebastián Acevedo (MCTSA).
In the Chilean National Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, death as a consequence of political violence was how Sebastián's demise was described. Roberta Bacic (2012), in her paper Stitching together non-violence and "Movement Against Torture Sebastián Acevedo (MCTSA)" notes that his death described thus: "gave a public acknowledgement of the desperate situation people lived during those years and gave his family the right to reparations."
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