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Chile: Barracks attacked and vehicles set on fire in Mapuche conflict zone

Authorities suspect radical Mapuche members of the Weihan Auka Mapu group were responsible for the attack | Font: AFP / reference

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Attack on police station and fire presumably deliberate were recorded in the early morning of this Sunday in the area of ​​the city of araucaniaa troubled area in southern Chile, where there is a bitter and violent conflict between some indigenous groups, the state and large forestry companies.

In the city of Lumaco, more than 600 kilometers south of Santiago, a group of people are traveling in two cars. was attacked with a gun police station, according to reports from the Carabineros body.

The group has reached run away There were no reports of casualties, although there was damage to the police station, according to official sources.

In the same area, but Vilkunarson was recorded, as a result of which at least two cars burned down in the property where the company dedicated removal of forest wasteThis was reported by sources in the Investigative Police.

A poster was found at the scene, stating that the fire was started by a group. Weichang Auka Mapu – which in the Mapudungun language means “Fight for the territory of the rebels” – a radical organization of the Mapuche, according to local media.

historical conflict

In various parts of southern Chile, the so-called “Mapuche conflict” has existed for decades, in which state and agricultural and forestry companies of large economic groups are opposed to some indigenous communities of this ethnic group – the majority in the country – who claim land that they have inhabited for centuries.

The dispute has seen an escalation in violence over the past year, with frequent burning of cars and property, fatal shootings and hunger strikes by native prisoners.

The lands claimed by the Mapuche were occupied at the end of the 19th century by the Chilean state in a process officially known as the “Pacification of Araucania” and are now mostly owned large companies or families descended from settlers.

Faced with increased violence, the region araucania and two provinces in the neighboring region of Biobio (including Arauco) have been under a state of emergency since May, allowing military deployments to cooperate in the control of public order.

(As reported by EFE)


Source: RPP

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