Source:
newspaper The Citizen
A report presented this year the City Centre to the Human Rights Commission, seeking injunctions, accounts of repression and harassment of victims who are children of the communities Mapuche.
offer a list of just some of the cases are examples of state policy against the Mapuche.
January 16, 2001 : Police hurt D.Ñ., 12, daughter of Joseph lonko Ñancupil, Nalcahue community, receiving seven pellets that hit on his back and arm.
November 13, 2001 : About a hundred riot police carried out the eviction of a peaceful occupation of the farm's Corner. During the operation, several children were choking from tear gas without care.
05 and August 29, 2002 : The same girl injured in 2001, is kidnapped twice by unknown civil carrying weapons, threatening to kill her and her family for speaking out. The girl was also assaulted by their captors.
November 7, 2002 : Alex Lemún, 17 (Community Montutui Mapu) get a shot on his forehead at close range with a shotgun and died after days of agony, on 12 November. The biggest Marcos Treuer, his murderer confessed, still on active duty.
April 2, 2006 : JH, 16 (Temucuicui Community) is loaded onto a police bus by police special forces that guard the field of Urban René particular, adjacent to the community and questioned for about an hour, with beatings and death threats. The boy was in shock at his home.
December 7, 2006 : AL, 8, lost a finger on his hand when the rural bus that was traveling with other community members of Temuicuicui is intercepted by police, who fired rubber bullets at people, including a pregnant woman.
December 26, 2006 : We searched the home of Sonia Cheuque machi in Father de las Casas, where he illegally asked a girl of 5 years, a fact for which he filed a complaint against the police.
2006 and 2007: A report of interrogation revealed the illegal (warrantless) to children in schools Ercilla Mapuche. They asked for weapons and if they had participated in land occupations, and were threatened if they gave information. Teachers and principals were not dared to report what happened. It appealed for protection.
February 2, 2008 : VC, 15 (Community Ankapi Ñancuhew), arrested along with other Mapuche and taken to the police station Collipilli. During the trip, was beaten and threatened service weapons. He spent the night in jail wounded.
June 2008: LM, 16 (José Community Wink), a fractured jaw after being hit with the butt of the gun of a policeman. The youth was arrested and charged with "injury to fiscal weapons." Even the prosecutor recognized the illegality of the arrest.
August 24, 2008 : An infant of seven days is intoxicated in a new raid on the community Temucuicui. Two other children, ages 2 and 5 years, were injured.
September 2008: RC, 11, sought political asylum in Switzerland due to legal and political persecution to her mother, Juana lonko Calfunao, and his family.
December 4, 2008 : PQ, 13 years (Commonwealth of Temucuicui), arrested by police in investigations and at gunpoint, is transferred to a retainer Traiguén. There is hooded, beaten, interrogated and then abandoned more than 15 kilometers of their community. In 2007, the same boy was hit by several riot shotgun pellets in his leg, and 2006 was found on a hill with hypothermia, after starting terrified by raid on their community. In January 2010, several media were released that supposedly he was wanted on charges of terrorist nature.
October 2, 2009 : FM, 10 (Temucuicui Community), wounded by rubber bullets of the police in the parietal region (near the eye), while tending animals.
October 3, 2009 : AC, 12, impact on his leg shot riot police during raid to Temucuicui community.
October 5, 2009 : FP, 13, intercepted by police who carried out the eviction of farm Santa Lucia, as he looked along the machi herbs for treatment, was hit by pellets in his leg, elbow and back, and then was loaded onto a helicopter from where he picked up by the feet, threatening to throw it into space.
October 16, 2009 : During a raid, police fired at Temucuicui school, where he conducted a meeting with officials of Conaf, injuring several children. Others are suffocated by the tear gas thrown inside the enclosure.
May 1, 2010 : A family Temucuicui community, who was with three children (6, 10 and 17), was intercepted by police accompanied by the Urban René particular, while gathering firewood. Are beaten and racially abused. A week later, at school, the child was accused by a professor of theft of a computer when he had not attended school, pointing out that everything would be arranged if not denounced Urban or the police.
July 8, 2010 : The Public Ministry requested a mistrial and acquittal VQ, 15 (Community of Temuicui), accused of breaking windows of this service after the passage of a march with the corpse of the young Mapuche killed by police shot in the back, Jaime Mendoza Collío in August 2009. The girl, who was arrested while having breakfast in their internship (April 7) by members who posed as relatives, claimed total innocence and persecution (lonko daughter of the community). For although the damage assessment is 78 thousand dollars and no evidence against him, the prosecution insists that the trial be repeated (trial it costs, on average, 500 thousand dollars to the state).
For Observatorio Ciudadano
The Citizens' Watch is a nongovernmental organization advocacy, promotion and documentation of human rights.
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