popular support at 34 Mapuche political prisoners, 65 days HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST PINOCHET the Terrorism Act.
A 53 percent of Chileans support the hunger strike maintaining 34 Mapuche in various prisons, while 41 percent rejected it and 6 percent were unsure or not responding, according to a survey by the newspaper La Tercera . The survey also showed that 37 percent approve the performance of the four opposition legislators who joined the movement on Thursday of last week. More than 30 percent positively evaluates the role played by the Catholic and evangelical churches who have volunteered as facilitators of a dialogue.
Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike 65 days ago, have threatened to radicalize their fast. If the government does not allow you to install a dialogue, leave to drink fluids, which will further aggravate their condition. The strikers have lost an average of 20 kilos and complications in their physical and mental. This weekend, 2 of them, Jonathan Huillical and José Huenuche , had to be taken to the hospital Conception the seriousness of his condition.
Mapuche people demanding an end to the application of Terrorism Act passed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and reject the Government's proposal to reform. In addition, demand the end of the civil and military dual processing is applied and the demilitarization of the territory.
President, Sebastian Pinera, has been limited so far to express their concern about the status of strikers and ask them to lay down their attitude, says his government is open to dialogue, but has not accepted, explicitly, the possibility installing a table with the Mapuche.
The Director National Indigenous Development Corporation, Millao Santos has expressed support for the Mapuche hunger strike and about added that there is no reason to celebrate the Bicentennial in the country .
Police arrest 13 Mapuche including the mother of a striker
Thirteen people were arrested in front of the hospital Concepcion (500 km south of Santiago ), where they were taken Huillical and Jonathan Joseph Huenuche, two of the prisoners on hunger strike, with serious health conditions. During the transfer, Emilia Pilquimán , 52, mother of Ramón Llanquileo Mapuche, was attacked by a policeman. The attack sparked riots. The police assaulted a 30 Mapuche who were outside the hospital in support of their cause, and arrested thirteen people, which were charged with disorder and damage to the hospital. Natividad
Llanquileo , spokesman for the prisoners and the daughter of Emilia Pilquimán , told Radio Bio Bio who were also arrested " alternative media representatives " and denounced "the no intention government to "seek a solution to the hunger strike.
" racism and police acted in the case of my mom yelled 'india' and beat her. We intend to seek judicial action, and see what actions we will continue . What we want to point out is that they felt pressured and we tell the government that in this way, if you want to weaken the movement is not going to get, because all you're getting with this is to radicalize more " he said.
Mapuche prisoners are on hunger strike since last July 12 in protest of anti-terrorism law, was sentenced on Tuesday, the reforms proposed by the Chilean president Sebastián Piñera legal instrument and considered the amendments referred to as " absolutely insufficient. "
On September 9 Chilean deputies four members of the Human Rights Commission of the Lower House decided solidarity with Mapuche prisoners and join the hunger strike that kept the natives to demand their fundamental rights.
While the government accuses the Mapuche for their alleged involvement in illegal land occupation and burning of agricultural facilities in Chile is known as a historical struggle of this community, to reclaim the ancestral land that rightfully belongs to them.
For years the Mapuche mobilizations undertaken by the recovery of ancestral land which they claim as their own against their occupation by forestry companies and private owners.
The Mapuche community is the largest indigenous people of Chile and represents 6.6 percent of the population, with a total has 16 million members bros.
" racism and police acted in the case of my mom yelled 'india' and beat her. We intend to seek judicial action, and see what actions we will continue . What we want to point out is that they felt pressured and we tell the government that in this way, if you want to weaken the movement is not going to get, because all you're getting with this is to radicalize more " he said.
Mapuche prisoners are on hunger strike since last July 12 in protest of anti-terrorism law, was sentenced on Tuesday, the reforms proposed by the Chilean president Sebastián Piñera legal instrument and considered the amendments referred to as " absolutely insufficient. "
On September 9 Chilean deputies four members of the Human Rights Commission of the Lower House decided solidarity with Mapuche prisoners and join the hunger strike that kept the natives to demand their fundamental rights.
While the government accuses the Mapuche for their alleged involvement in illegal land occupation and burning of agricultural facilities in Chile is known as a historical struggle of this community, to reclaim the ancestral land that rightfully belongs to them.
For years the Mapuche mobilizations undertaken by the recovery of ancestral land which they claim as their own against their occupation by forestry companies and private owners.
The Mapuche community is the largest indigenous people of Chile and represents 6.6 percent of the population, with a total has 16 million members bros.
Mapuche The strike marks the commemoration of the coup
The situation of the villagers mapuchesen hunger strike marked the commemoration of 37 anniversary of the coup of Augusto Pinochet against the socialist government of Salvador Allende .
The main activity of this September 11 was in the traditional procession that human rights organizations and relatives of the victims made to the General Cemetery of Santiago , attended by about 6,000 people.
" It hit the streets to pay tribute and say you do not forget what happened during the dictatorship, but also to demand and demand respect for human rights in our country " said the president of the Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared (AFDD), Lorena Pizarro.
The leader emphasized that in this commemoration of 37 years of the coup was a special concern for the present Mapuche on strike, with criticism of the government's right- Sebastián Piñera. "He was very aware of the situation of the Mapuche people is very sensitive to what the villagers are living who have been 62 days on hunger strike and did not see any political will of this government to address this and create a dialogue" .
juvenile prisoners Mapuche joined the strike
" It hit the streets to pay tribute and say you do not forget what happened during the dictatorship, but also to demand and demand respect for human rights in our country " said the president of the Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared (AFDD), Lorena Pizarro.
The leader emphasized that in this commemoration of 37 years of the coup was a special concern for the present Mapuche on strike, with criticism of the government's right- Sebastián Piñera. "He was very aware of the situation of the Mapuche people is very sensitive to what the villagers are living who have been 62 days on hunger strike and did not see any political will of this government to address this and create a dialogue" .
juvenile prisoners Mapuche joined the strike
On Wednesday, September 1, three minors Mapuche incarcerated at the special Chol Chol , decided to reinforce the battle against 'law terrorism ' and join the hunger strike by political prisoners Mapuche Temuco, Concepcion, Angol, Valdivia and Lebu. In a statement, the minor political prisoners also reported physical abuse, restriction of visits and lack of food and health care of juvenile prisoners.
Luis Marileo Cariqueo, Cristian Cayupan and Jose Perez Ñiripil made public who joined the strike because the demands of the Mapuche people are still without concrete answers from the government. In a statement sent from the special center Chol Chol, juvenile prisoners claim to have suffered torture and abuse. Visits indicate that they have been restricted, as well as food. In addition, reveal that it is forbidden to enter healthy foods such as bread, fruit and meat, and only allow entry of sweets, which further undermine the health of juvenile detainees. (full release)
"We have suffered, and a large number of children of the Mapuche communities mobilized, persecution and discrimination by various institutions and public and private, such as rural clinics and schools, specifically in Ercilla, who are accomplices to constant police persecution, recounted in the statement.
denounce that mothers, grandmothers, sisters and friends to visit children at the center are treated as "real criminals .
The Nest Foundation and NGO Network for Children and Youth of Chile call for a quick response on the facts alleged and on which triggered the hunger strike of Mapuche political prisoners and added to the demand for the repeal of anti-terrorism law .
These entities asked that police stop practices of torture and threat to children and teenagers to inform on family and community members, as well as to practices "threat and intimidation that police made against the community and the families of Mapuche children, affecting its integrity physical, psychological and moral, resulting in serious violations of their rights to life, survival and development. "
(Sources: ANSA-America, PULSAR-Agency Radio Bío Bío, Free Network, BBC World, Latino and Migrant Adital )
denounce that mothers, grandmothers, sisters and friends to visit children at the center are treated as "real criminals .
The Nest Foundation and NGO Network for Children and Youth of Chile call for a quick response on the facts alleged and on which triggered the hunger strike of Mapuche political prisoners and added to the demand for the repeal of anti-terrorism law .
These entities asked that police stop practices of torture and threat to children and teenagers to inform on family and community members, as well as to practices "threat and intimidation that police made against the community and the families of Mapuche children, affecting its integrity physical, psychological and moral, resulting in serious violations of their rights to life, survival and development. "
(Sources: ANSA-America, PULSAR-Agency Radio Bío Bío, Free Network, BBC World, Latino and Migrant Adital )
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