Temucuicui – On Recent Police Repression in Our Territory

March 4, 2023

Public declaration on recent occurances of police repression in our territory.

Autonomous mapuche community Temucuicui, declare the following before local, national and international public opinion:

1. Yesterday afternoon, March 3, 2023, the special forces of the carabineros launched a brutal intervention, using different weapons indiscriminently against our weichafe who resisted the military police incursion with only lances and witruwe (1), and gravely wounding weichafe Hugo Queipul (son of lonko Victor Queipul). They shot directly at our peñi with steel pellets, causing internal bleeding and compromising his stomach and lung, a serious clinical situation for which he is hospitalized in the intensive care unit, and will require surgery for the wounds tomorrow at Victoria hospital. We must remember that these are the very same steel pellets that took the life of our weichafe Alex Lemun in 2002, in addition to being a prohibited type of ammunition in the acting protocols of public order control. It should also be mentioned that an 11 year old minor in the community was also wounded by pellets in various parts of his body, and also needed to go to the doctor’s office in Ercilla. There are also others who were wounded in the community who refuse to go to a clinic out of fear of being arrested.

2. Within this context, taking advantage of the fact that the pu lofs’ attention was focused on the wounded and the procedures of our arrested peñi, today the cowardly special forces entered once again and stole from our ruka located on the reclaimed land, the wheat that spanned approximately 3 hectares of the harvest carried out yesterday, also seizing a machine intended for agricultural work.

3. In violation of various norms of international law, the official and racist press, especially Radio Biobío, has reported the event as a theft of grain by the community, which is outside of any objectivity and clearly shows the affinity of this media with the ultra-radical right wing of the area. Despite all these actions of the Chilean terrorist state, we will continue in the process of productive reclamation and territorial control, because it is precisely this that the racist and fascist oligarchy of the area does not support. They, together with the neoliberal government of Boric, only seek to keep the Mapuche in a corner begging for crumbs of welfare. Our community remains on its feet and never on its knees and we hold Boric and his policies of good living directly responsible for our Weichafe’s difficult health situation, cowardly wounded by a lapdog of those who rob from our people. We will soon announce a series of actions that we will follow and convene.

4. Lastly and categorically, we reject the official version of events that the carabineros presented to public opinion of crop theft by our community. We have planted and therefore we are within our legitimate right to harvest our food.

Autonomous Community Temucuicui

Source: https://comunidadtemucuicui.blogspot.com/2023/03/ante-los-ultimos-acontecimientos-de.html

Translator’s notes:
1. A traditional throwing weapon

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