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Chile Government takes first steps against terrorism law enforcement

Source: Exchange 21

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Sending a bill to limit the scope of Military Justice and the commitment to "perfect" the Terrorism Act, the government took over the Interior Minister Rodrigo Hiznpeter, in the context of indigenous conflict, in an announcement from the palace.

" The government is willing to revise our legal " Hinzpeter said, announcing the dispatch of two bills to amend the scope of military justice and the law against terrorism, while calling the commoners to abandon their hunger strike.

Among the changes, which aim precisely to some of the claims of the Mapuche organizations, Hinzpeter explained that the mechanism will seek the causes in which the accused is now a civilian and military justice are known to the knowledge transferred the ordinary courts, to avoid double prosecutions.

As for the Patriot Act, the minister said the government seeks to incorporate improvements in places like the crime that covers the legal framework is too broad ", but added that the goal is" not softening and tighten the legal framework. "

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The Coalition also took part in the debate, asking the government to allow the repeal or major changes to the current Anti-Terrorism Act applied to Mapuche communities.

Senate President, Jorge Pizarro said that the implementation of the Terrorism Act "to a group of our society, particularly of our native peoples, seems like an arbitrary act of discrimination and not legally warranted."

For its part, the bench boss of the members of the Christian Democrats (DC), Patricio Vallespín, with peers from policy store, Rene Saffirio Fouad Chahine and Gabriel Ascencio, received in Congress to werkenes representatives of the Mapuche detainees.

In this instance it was agreed to request the installation a dialogue and commitment to progress on amendments to the Terrorism Act and the Code of Military Justice. "It's really urgent to establish a dialogue now, the situation of the Mapuche is processed rather than delicate and conflict, today, threatening their lives," the deputies agreed Araucanía, Saffirio and Chahin.