Now 7 Mapuche in Chile on hunger-strike!

There are now 7 Mapuche on hunger-strike in Chile:

At UNICEF ​​headquarters - Santiago, since August 25:
A Mother and Werkén(Spokeperson) of the Mapuche Territorial Alliance, she is occupying the UNICEF office for more than thirty days asking for a statement of this global entity about the abuses committed by the police and the state in Mapuche territory, against children, women and elders who have been beaten and wounded with buckshot in a brutal fashion, many of them being bedridden due to injuries.

1)  MEWLEN WENCHO
For more information see:
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/mapuche-starts-hunger-strike-on-day-30.html

5 Mapuche Political Prisoners - Angol prison, since August 27:  
All of them belonging to the community of Wente Winkul Mapu of the Lof Chekenko, Araucanía Region. It is a hunger strike of indefinite character, started on August 27. All were accused of repeated attempted murder, and two of them were convicted in a real court of war, where there were a dozen policemen  that commiserated to the court, to accuse them with lies and slander. Two boys of eighteen and nineteen, both rural students, giving them an effective penalty of 11 years and eight months.

2)  DANIEL LEVINAO MONTOYA 
and

3)  PAULINO LEVIPAN COYÁN 
For more information see:
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/chilean-court-sentences-mapuche-youths.html
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/another-blow-to-mapuche-community-wente.html

4) ERICK MONTOYA MONTOYA
For more information see:
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/erick-montoya-victim-of-chilean-state.html
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/erick-montoya-reports-from-angol-prison.html
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/new-police-attack-on-wente-winkul-mapu.html

5)  HECTOR RICARDO NAHUELQUEO NAHUELQUEO
and
6)  RODRIGO MONTOYA MELINAO
For more information see: 
http://maricheweuinternational.blogspot.nl/2012/08/the-mapuche-criminal-defense-requested.html

Office of the ANMI based in Temuco since August 27:
Machi (Healer and spiritual authority) Pascual Catrilaf joined these protests, in full accordance with the Mapuche political prisoners in ANGOL and werkén Mewlen Wencho in the UNICEF ​​headquarters

7) Machi Pascual Catrilaf 



FREEDOM FOR ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS!
STOP THE STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE MAPUCHE!!!

In order to convey your support and encouragement to the hunger-strikers, and to request information on their state of health, call or write from all countries to:UNICEF:
Mr. Thierry Lemaresquier Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Chile.  
e-mail: infochile@unicef.org
Address: Isidora Goyenechea Street # 3322, Las Condes, Santiago - Chile. www.unicef.cl
Phone: (56) (2) 422 88 00 Fax: (56) (2) 422 88 88

Or see here for contact information for other UNICEF offices: http://www.unicef.org/about/contact.html



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