BNG complaint "democratic deficit" in Chile and supports at the Mapuche anti-terrorism law "Pinochet's own" Galician Nationalist Bloc has emphasized the intention to "reveal" the "genocide" of the Mapuche people, for which the BNG has submitted a proposal for discussion in the full House Galician regional and other initiatives that will lead to Parliament and the European Parliament. These actions are in addition to various other initiatives in different European countries.
Source: Europa Press
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http://www.europapress.es/latam/chile/noticia-chile-bng-denuncia-deficit-democratico-chile-apoya-mapuches- -terrorism law-own-20100812154039.html Pinochet SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Aug. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) - Congresswoman Ana Luisa BNG autonomic Bouza has denounced the "democratic deficit" of Chile regarding the situation of the Mapuche people, while he has shown his support "the struggle" of the 31 political prisoners from the tribe to which has been applied to anti-terrorism law "characteristic of the Pinochet era."
At a press conference, Bouza has emphasized the intention to "reveal" the "genocide" of the Mapuche people, for which the BNG has filed a motion for discussion law in the full House in Spain, and other initiatives that will lead to Parliament and the European Parliament.
In this sense, the delegate in Europe Fellow Party-Wallmapuwen Mapuche, Hector Cumilaf, has warned of the deteriorating health of 32 Indian prisoners who have begun a hunger strike on July 12 in five Chilean prisons. All with the goal of "exposing her particular legal situation," that "is full of assemblies", and to draw attention to the "systematic policy of repression" of the Chilean Government.
application also criticized the "disproportionate" anti-terrorism law "only" Mapuche prisoners, which means that defendants will be two years in detention "without trial." It has also drawn attention to the fact that the Andean country is the "only" with a double view, because the prisoners are processed "in the civilian and military justice."
Therefore, the BNG has urged the Government of Sebastián Piñera to eliminate "the remains of the dictatorship", while suing the Government of Spain that "takes into consideration" to these people who, according Cumilaf, representing approximately 10 percent of the Chilean population, with "a million inhabitants."
"deaf ears" In this line, Cumilaf has reprimanded the policy of "deaf ears" of the Chilean Government, has said he has refused to talk with prisoners and "the only measure that has done is to mount with food ", in respect of prisoners on hunger strike.
In fact, he remarked that the mass media in Chile" are controlled by the right "so that there has been a wide coverage of the hunger strike at the existence of "very few independent media."
this regard, Secretary of International Relations BNG, Gonzalo Constenla, stressed that all peoples "are entitled to coexist" and "their own language, land and culture. "
therefore pointed out that although the problems of the Mapuche people - who lives among the States of Chile and Argentina - is" not very well known "among the Galician society, "Suffered a real holocaust" with the establishment of these two South American states
