Mapuche Community Denounces Death Threats and Racist Graffiti

"Lemun, Catrileo, Collio (assassinated) - Carbone, Daniel Melinao -> Your time will come"

PUBLIC STATEMENT

The Community Cacique José Guiñon of the commune of Ercilla, denounces and publishes to all the media on both the national and international levels that:


PUBLIC STATEMENT

The Community Cacique José Guiñon of the commune of Ercilla, denounces and publishes to all the media on both the national and international levels that:

The horrific and cowardly acts of intimidation and death threats to young people belonging to Mapuche communities in a recovery process of ancestral territories remind us of all violations of our grandmothers and mothers, and also the murders and dismemberments suffered by other Mapuche women and girls, as a result of defending our usurped territory. These facts have been remembered, as a warning that the same may happen as in those years, threats which have been inscribed on the landlord's manor of Chekenko Farm, sector Vida Nueva, where our wives and daughters have been threatened with the most humiliating and inhuman acts that can be performed by a man, where there were found writings that indicate the following "Mapuche to your tribe I will culeo*, I will culia* all the Indian woman through the little one, lazy culia*, stinking cunt." These writings have been found days earlier by our own boys and girls of our community, who played in this Farm claimed by the Community, as ancestral territory.

*Culiar is a VERY vulgar slang verb meaning "to rape from behind"

With their silent in the face of these acts the Chilean State and its institutions expose their intentions to encourage violations and dirty abuse of power, as a way to put down and silence the fight of our people for the liberation of our territory usurped by landowners and mega companies.
With these denunciations we make it clear that the threats and terrorism come from the Chilean State and its policy of repression.

As Mapuche Community Cacique José Guiñon we make it clear that our territorial recovery process will not stop, because our fight is aimed at the welfare of our nature and our children. The resistance of our people will be getting stronger, and the threats by the Chilean state, do not intimidate us. We will fight with our heads held high, for the freedom of our people and our territory.
 
We call on the Mapuche people and on the non-Mapuche who understand our fight, and on all the media to show solidarity and denounce these serious and dangerous threats to those who have taken on this process of struggle.

MARICHIWEW ....!