August 12 - International Solidarity Day with the Mapuche Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Friday, July 30, 2010 |
"We are hated by those who want to be owners of our land" If you have come here, it is because you are a person who does not tolerate injustice. It is because you do not want, with your silence and immobilism, to be an accomplice to a silent ethnic cleansing against a people who only defend their reason for being, the right to lands and to live on those lands in harmony, far from the practices that only seek to exploit them in order to transform them into a highly exported good on the market. |
You arrived here because of your love for life and because you found out that a handful of incarcerated human beings putting themselves at risk through a Hunger Strike to denounce the continual violations they are committing against them, against their people.
You are here and we have met each other, but we are not done with each other, no more can you close your eyes, no more can you turn your back on us...you are already a part of this campaign that seeks to show solidarity with human beings who seek the same as you, a world more human, more just for all.
Land, Culture, Justice and Liberty!
Sympathise with the Mapuche political prisoners on Hunger Strike!
Because resistance is not terrorism...NO to the antiterrorism law!
Enough of the farce, liberty to all the Mapuche political prisoners!
Unite, SIGN, Disseminate, Act, Resist,...Exist later.
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List of Mapuche political prisoners in hungerstrike
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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The hunger strike started on July 12, 2010 in the prisons of Concepcion and Temuco, and later on joined by the prisons of Valdivia, Lebu and Angol, is a call for swift and immediate implementation of justice. Their demands include an end to the implementation of the antiterrorism law, the demilitarization of communities and the release of Mapuche political prisoners. 1. Mauricio Waikilao Waikilao |
10. Jorge Cayupan Ñirripil
11. Francisco Cayupan Ñirripil
12. Elvis Millán Colicheu
13. Eliseo Ñirripil
14. Marco Millanao Mariñan
15. Emilio Benkhoff Jerez.
CONCEPCIÓN
16. Luis Menares C.
17. Ramón LLanquileo P.
18. Héctor Llaitul C.
19. Jonathan Huillical
20. José Huenuche R.
VALDIVIA
21. Ignacio Andrés Gutiérrez Coña
ANGOL
22. Víctor Hugo Queipul Millanao
23. José Eugenio Queipul Huaiquil
24. Camilo Hipólito Tori Quillanao
25. Felipe Ricardo Huenchullan Cayul
26. Lorenzo Alex Curipan Levipan
27. Fernando Enrique Millacheo Marin
28. José Guillermo Millacheo Marin
29. Eduardo Oses Moreno
30. Waikilaf Cadin Calfunao
LEBU
31. Carlos Muñoz Huenuman
32. Eduardo César Painemil Peña
Petition Text on the hunger strike of Mapuche political prisoners in Chile
Given the sustained repression of the Chilean State and the complicity of their governments, including the current of President Sebastián Piñera, we call on the authorities to immediately assume an attitude of respect for the fundamental human rights of the Mapuche people for which they have established their social battles for to the recovery of their ancestral lands, their culture and historical rights. The political persecution of the Mapuche people, the use of militarized violence against the communities, youth, elderly and children should and must stop. The Chilean State should and must respect the international conventions and human rights treaties it has signed. Failure to do so is a grave violation of the democratic principles established by the United Nations.
The hunger strike started on July 12, 2010 in the prisons of Concepcion and Temuco, and later on joined by the prisons of Valdivia, Lebu and Angol, is a call for swift and immediate implementation of justice. The prisoners' rights have been violated without any regard for the principles of Justice. We demand an end to repression and the acceptance of the following demands:
The right to due process or fair trial without the current legal and political mockeries where the use of institutionalized violence, including torture, persist.
An end of anti-terrorism law, passed during the dictatorship, and whose racist application against the Mapuche causes permits all types of illegitimate actions that have been condemned by the UN. Its use is facilitated by the criminalization of the legitimate fight of the Mapuche people.
An end to Military Justice, which promotes impunity for state crimes during the dictatorship and now, in its war against the Mapuche people permits new crimes to go without justice. An end to the use of civil and military trials for the same prisoner must end.
Release of all Mapuche political prisoners imprisoned in Chilean State prisons.
Demilitarization of the Mapuche areas where communities demand recognition of their ancestral lands and political claim rights. The militarized police take communities by assault, abuse children, old people and just anyone that may be even asleep, at night.
The hunger strike of these Mapuche prisoners is their final opportunity to recover their dignity which is constantly violated by the Chilean State. The social and ethical principles established internationally condemn the disdainful attitude of the Chilean State and its low-intensity war aimed at maintaining and assuring revenue for an elite few and destroying the riches of the country.
Therefore we demand that the Government, as well as the Parliament and civil society assure the resolution of these demands and avoid exasperating the incorrectly named “Mapuche Conflict” imposed by the State that discredits all the Chilean people before international public opinion. We do not want to prolong this hunger strike and bring more innocents to death who only seek respect for their people.
The petition text on the online petition is in Spanish, but the text above is the direct translation of the original spanish text.
You can also send the petition from your personal email to the following email directions:
- President y Ministers (copy and paste):
opinión@presidencia.cl, internet@presidencia.cl, mhansen@presidencia.cl, gjoignant@minsegpres.cl, minju@reuna.cl, minju@minjusticia.cl, rmadrid@minjusticia.cl, aguerra@minrel.gov.cl, hgutierrez@congreso.cl, ddhhcam@congreso.cl, ddhhsen@senado.cl, lperez@senado.cl, embachile@embachile.be, misionchile@misginchile.org
- Senators (copy and paste):
aallamand@senado.cl, iallende@senado.cl, salvear@senado.cl, cbianchi@senado.cl, ccantero@senado.cl, chadwick@senado.cl, fchahuan@senado.cl, coloma@senado.cl, cescalona@senado.cl, aespina@senado.cl, eduardofrei@senado.cl, jgarcia@senado.cl, ggirardi@senado.cl, jagomez@senado.cl, ahorvath@senado.cl, kuschel@senado.cl, rlagos@senado.cl, hlarrain@senado.cl, jpletelier@senado.cl, longueira@senado.cl, ematthei@senado.cl, pmunoz@senado.cl, anavarro@senado.cl, jnovoa@senado.cl, jorpis@senado.cl, lperez@senado.cl, vperez@senado.cl, jpizarro@senado.cl, bprokurica@senado.cl, jquintana@senado.cl, xrincon@senado.cl, frossi@senado.cl, mruiz@senado.cl, hsabag@senado.cl, etuma@senado.cl, iwalker@senado.cl, pwalker@senado.cl, azaldivar@senado.cl
- Deputies (copy and paste):
eaccorsi@congreso.cl, saguilo@congreso.cl, ralinco@congreso.cl, palvarez-salamanca@congreso.cl, oandrade@congreso.cl, paraya@congreso.cl, garenas@congreso.cl, ascencio@congreso.cl, pepeauth@congreso.cl, nbaltolu@congreso.cl, jbarros@congreso.cl, ebauer@congreso.cl, gbecker@congreso.cl, mbertoli@congreso.cl, sbobadilla@congreso.cl, pbrowne@congreso.cl, jburgos@congreso.cl, gcalderon@congreso.cl, ccampos@congreso.cl, acardemil@congreso.cl, lcarmona@congreso.cl, jlcastro@congreso.cl, ecerda@congreso.cl, gceroni@congreso.cl, acornejo@congreso.cl, macristi@congreso.cl, fchahin@congreso.cl, adeurresti@congreso.cl, rdelmast@congreso.cl, mdiaz@congreso.cl, jmedwards@congreso.cl, eeluchans@congreso.cl, mespinosa@congreso.cl, fespinoza@congreso.cl, eestay@congreso.cl, rfarias@congreso.cl, rmgarcia@congreso.cl, agarcia@congreso.cl, cgirardi@congreso.cl, jgodoy@congreso.cl, cgoic@congreso.cl, rodrigogonzalez@congreso.cl, hgutierrez@congreso.cl, rgutierrez@congreso.cl, phales@congreso.cl, fharboe@congreso.cl, ghasbun@congreso.cl, jhernandez@congreso.cl, mjhoffmann@congreso.cl, misasi@congreso.cl, ejaramil@congreso.cl, cjarpa@congreso.cl, tjimenez@congreso.cl, jkast@congreso.cl, jclatorre@congreso.cl, llemus@congreso.cl, rleon@congreso.cl, jlobos@congreso.cl, plorenzi@congreso.cl, jmacaya@congreso.cl, mmarinovic@congreso.cl, rmartine@congreso.cl, pmelero@congreso.cl, fmeza@congreso.cl, amolina@congreso.cl, cmonckeberg@congreso.cl, nmonckeberg@congreso.cl, mmonsalve@congreso.cl, cmontes@congreso.cl, cmorales@congreso.cl, imoreira@congreso.cl, amunoz@congreso.cl, cnogueira@congreso.cl, inorambuena@congreso.cl, mnunez@congreso.cl, sojeda@congreso.cl, jmortiz@congreso.cl, cpacheco@congreso.cl, dpascal@congreso.cl, jperez@congreso.cl, lperezl@congreso.cl, crecondo@congreso.cl, rrincon@congreso.cl, grivas@congreso.cl, arobles@congreso.cl, mrojas@congreso.cl, krubilar@congreso.cl, masaa@congreso.cl, jsabag@congreso.cl, msabat@congreso.cl, rsaffirio@congreso.cl, fsalaberry@congreso.cl, dsandoval@congreso.cl, asantana@congreso.cl, fs@congreso.cl, schilling@congreso.cl, asepulveda@congreso.cl, gsilber@congreso.cl, esilva@congreso.cl, asquella@congreso.cl, jtarud@congreso.cl, gteillier@congreso.cl, vtorres@congreso.cl, jtuma@congreso.cl, mturres@congreso.cl, julloa@congreso.cl, guriarte@congreso.cl, iurrutia@congreso.cl, pvallespin@congreso.cl, evr@congreso.cl, ovargas@congreso.cl, pvelasquez@congreso.cl, mvenegas@congreso.cl, gverdugo@congreso.cl, xvidal@congreso.cl, cvilches@congreso.cl, gvonmuhlenbrock@congreso.cl, mwalker@congreso.cl, fw120@congreso.cl, mzalaquett@congreso.cl
Source: Freedom to all mapuche political prisoners