While the murder of a mapuce activist in the IX región was a strong rumour in the air (confirmed by some media, but not by the government) different people who support the mapuche struggle hold a pacific meeting to protest against the police violence in the chilean south against our native people. The following statement was distributed in the place.

Statement to the Police Violence in Temucuicui

1. We condemn the pression made by the concertacionist government, alied with the right wing and the land owners. It’s unacceptable the irracionality that the police and their special forces group act against our brothers, shooting children, chokin them with their gases, hiting Mapuche authorities and arresting Mapuche leaders. The last raid from the last Friday on Oct. 16 is a reflection of the brutality used by the government to answer the demands from the Mapuche Nation.

2. We condemn the arbitrary arrest of our brothers from the Autonomous Community of Temucuicui, trying to vinculate without proof to the fires on trucks and the assault on tolls, in a set up of the racist chilean justice.

3. We denounce the hostil actitude from the Interior Ministery, made public by Patricio Rosende, who said that the State can call the antiterrorist law as a pression method to stop the mapuche movement. The use of this law created by Pinochet, infringes all rights of the accused people, it violates the due process and it multiplies the punishment by 3, even is there are not proofs.

4. The political responsability of the horrible abuses that we’ve seen is straight from the Concertación Government and the Right Wing, because they hold the politics of constant militarization of Mapuche territory. They are who turned the communities and cities of the south in a real État de siège, where Michelle Bachelet and her agents, the intelectual authors of these aberrants acts that affects not only children, but also the youth and indefense old people. They are the minds behind the criminalization of our demands.

5. We nade a call of atention to the international bodies who have the mission to protect the fundamental rights of the people, ie UNICEF in the case of children, to take part of our denounces of the serious abuses against our Mapuche children. They have enough antedecents to make an efective denounce. The Mapuche organizations reached them several times. They silence is making them accomplices of the racism of the Chilen State.

6. We reaffirm that the Mapuche Nation have the right for struggle to recover and reconstruct the historical territory, taken by the State and the rich people from this country. The represive actions of the Concertación and the Right Wing obbeys to the rejection of our political and territorial rights, to the rejection for autonomy and selfdetermination.

Organización Mapuche MELI WIXAN MAPU, 20 de octubre 2009.

Even if it was a pacific meeting, police decided to shut it down… arresting 5 people and using the water canon.

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