Chile, you help the mineworkers, what about the Mapuche?

24 September 2010

This article describes that a family of over thirty Mapuche are on a hunger strike in a Chilean prison. Emprisoned Pascual Pichún Collonao (27) describes that his Mapuche community struggles for its existence and the integrity of their ancestral land.The article describest that the Mapuche are not entering into dialogue with the Government. According to them such dialogue would merely be a ‘media-show’. It would not comprise any true rapprochement in meeting the demands of the hunger strikers. The imprisoned Mapuche hunger strikers want the Mapuche people to get their land back and they want the Chilean goverment to stop human rights violations against them under the guise of the anti-terrorism law created under former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Just watch and listen.

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