BY TOP WAR
The Mapuche Permanent Mission to the United Nations, the Mapuche Human Rights Commission and the Kimche Walmapu Indian Peoples Organization jointly filed a lawsuit against the State of Chile for violating numerous national and international rights in the Mapuche territories. Spanish lawyer Baltasar Garzon Real was proposed for the position of arbitrator.
Current treaties signed by the Spaniards and then by the State of Chile have been violated, according to a press release from the United Mapuche Organizations. They say the mining companies are abusing the treaties, which is causing desertification, drought, fires and pollution of areas where the ancient Indian people live. And this, in turn, is a quote: violated the rights of nature and the dignity of the Mapuche people, which leads to the systematic disappearance of Mapuche culture.
The Mapuche indigenous nation, which now numbers up to 1,5 million people, continues to demand the return of their ancestral territories, autonomy, self-determination, protection of culture and language. They are now also resisting the neo-liberal, extractive model they claim is carried out by post-Pinochet administrations through advocacy for logging firms, mining, hydropower and fisheries. The press release states that commercial and residential complexes have also been built in the original areas of Walmapu.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (en.topwar.ru)
Home | Caravan to Midnight (zutalk.com)
[metaslider id=18634