Mapuche March in Temuco [Chile]: Declaration and Denunciation of Repression by State Police

Mapuche March of Self Determination in Temuco [Chile]:

Declaration and Denunciation in Relation to the Violent Repression by State Police

March 20, 2019

1. Today, March 20, 2019, we as an Autonomous Mapuche Community of Temucuicui, participated in a peaceful political march, in exercise of our ancestral rights of self-determination and territorial rights, together with the commemoration of the murder of Peñi Camilo Catrillanca at the hands of the interior police force of the Lof Temucuicui.

This march was made impossible because of the unnecessary violence, racism and in the  best style of the School of the Americas, the actions of the police forces, who conducted excessive and deranged operatives against the common land holders participating in the march, resulting in arbitrary arrests against innocent people that were not even participants. For example, there were arrests of individuals from inside their private vehicles, as is the case of Javier Llanca, who was violently arrested and taken from inside the private vehicle of the Werken of the Autonomous Community of Temucuicui Jorge Huenchullan Cayul.

2.  We make absolutely responsible for this deranged pattern of state violence Mr. Jorge Atton, Intendant of the Araucanía, who under his racist and anti-Mapuche policies, allowed these atrocities and the excessive violence to take place, revealing the color and the objectives of what is the Piñera government policy in relation to the Mapuche issues: repression, excessive violence, imprisonment and zero willingness to dialogue.

This is the form under which all previous governments have also tried to establish dialogue with us as Mapuche, therefore the irresponsibility of Mr. Atton, is not surprising for us, however today we condemn his policy of violence and racism for not allowing us to express ourselves in a peaceful mobilization, as we pointed out in point 1 of this press release.

3.  We call for the mobilization of all Mapuche Peñis and Lagmien to disassociate themselves from the Chilean state and the crumbs they toss our way, whose clear purpose is to keep us in a state of meekness as Indigenous Peoples.

We call for a climate of ungovernability against the excessive violence of the state against our people, and to carry out these actions through the WEICHAN, by occupying lands, the expulsion of military or police settlements in our communities and strengthening everything that leads us to resume our ancestral forms of organization.
 

At this moment, the Peñis Boris Llanca, Javier Llanca and the Machi Juan Queupumil, of our Autonomous Community of Temucuicui, have been detained.

Camilo Catrillanca, Present.

JORGE HUENCHULLAN CAYUL

WERKEN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY OF TEMUCUICUI

 

Temuco: Brutal represión en marcha por la "paz y desmilitarización" 

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ABYA YALA

Call to Action by Mapuche Nation for Continental Indigenous Self Determination

March 20, 2019

We call for the formation of a Continental Movement of Abya Yala for the Self Determination of the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples, developing a collective strategy of cooperation, accompaniment and political accords in realization of our own geopolitical agenda, via international indigenous diplomacy within a multilateral framework.