Chile: Incendiary Attack on a Forestal Mininco Camp

Chile: Incendiary Attack on a Forestal Mininco Camp

Published by ojos de la calle on Santiago Indymedia
http://santiago.indymedia.org/news/2007/12/75070.php
Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2007

Two forestry camps, a truck, a van and a motorcycle were totally burned by 10 masked rebels in the Traiguen zone at a business subcontractor of Forestal Mininco.

The masked rebels acted in the full light of day, wearing green camouflage and carrying some shotguns.

In spite of the fact that the masked rebels proceeded to set fire to the premises of Forestal Mininco when they found about thirty forestry workers, none of them were injured.

The incendiary attack has been described by the authorities as one of the largest in the Mapuche zone of conflict, comparing it with the one that happened in the year 1998 when the Coordinadora de Comunidades Mapuches en conflicto Arauco Malleco came into the public light.

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Newspaper publishes CAM claim of responsibility

by anon

The newspaper Diario El Gong published on their website on December 6, 2007, a claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on a Forestal Mininco camp by the Coordinadora Mapuche Arauco Malleco (CAM), in which CAM calls the action an attack on capitalist interests in the Mapuche region in support of the demand for the immediate freedom of Mapuche political prisoners, some of whom were on their 56th day of hunger strike on December 5, the date of the communication.

http://www.gongaraucania.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1921&Itemid=1

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Chile: Mapuche hunger strike continues

From Weekly News Update on the Americas, Dec. 2, 2007

On Nov. 29 five Mapuche rights activists were in the 51st day of a hunger strike at the Angol prison in Chile's Region IX. Each of the hunger strikers—Mapuches Jaime Marileo Saravia, Juan Millalen Milla, Hector Llaitul Carrillanca and Jose Huenchunao and non-Mapuche Patricia Troncoso Roble—has lost more than 15 kilos. The five prisoners have been on hunger strike since Oct. 10 to demand the release of more than 20 indigenous Mapuche activists they consider political prisoners; an end to the militarization of the traditional Mapuche territories; and an end to repression against Mapuche activists.

On Nov. 21, agents from the militarized Carabineros police attacked a peaceful march in Santiago in support of the Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike. Police arrested 17 women, 15 men and two minors. The same day, Nov. 21, six other Mapuche activists—five of them women--began an open-ended hunger strike at the cathedral in the community of Canete, in Arauco province, Region VII, in support of the five prisoners. On Nov. 28, retired judge Juan Guzman met with Interior Minister Belisario Velasco to seek the government's urgent intervention on behalf of the five Mapuche prisoners, who are serving harsh sentences under an "anti-terrorism" law passed under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1973-1990). (PiensaChile.com, Nov. 29; Communique from Canete Hunger Strikers, Nov. 28; Programa Radial Mapuche Wixage Anai, Nov. 22; all via Red Solidaria por los Derechos Humanos-REDH)