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Los (as) undersigned, want to accompany the letter of the families of Mapuche political prisoners convicted in the trial of the City Cañete, we adhere to and solidarity with the legitimate request for cancellation and the implementation of a new and fair trial with an independent tribunal, competent and impartial and without the application of Law 18,314 or Terrorism Act.
Mr. Milton Juica
President of the Supreme Court of Chile
Present
Relatives of Mapuche political prisoners prosecuted recently in the city of Cañete, Bío Bío region, want to convey to you our deep concern about the situation of violations incurred during the development of the judicial process and ended finally with a conviction, why our families maintain a liquid hunger strike from 15th March.
As you know they were part of the Mapuche group of 34 were more 80 days on hunger strike to demand, among other things, that they are not anti-terrorist law applied (18,314), ie have the possibility of a fair trial. However, despite the agreement with the government, between November and February, developed a trial against 17 Mapuche, who have applied this standard by the prosecutors and private plaintiffs: forestry companies and government representatives, the latter through its commitment to all the evidence presented by the prosecution, including witnesses secret antiterrorism law authorizes.
In the famous sentence on 22 March, members of the Oral Criminal Court, Mr. Carlos Muñoz and Jorge Diaz, expressed his conviction have formed the alleged involvement in the events investigated and prosecuted primarily through the testimony of secret witness (called "witness No. 26). However, in Case rejected the classification of terrorist events, which is an obvious contradiction.
An alarming situation is that Mr. Judges considered in its ruling on "hearsay" of a Police Department who allegedly heard the statement "voluntary" one of our family (also charged and convicted), who allegedly would have charged and indicted auto other Mapuche. In this regard, we stress that this incident was reported to the justice and public opinion, because the statement was obtained under torture consisting with the medical certification of the injuries. However, in an unprecedented move, the Procuracy of Temuco decided not to endure the lawsuit, filing the case, and not investigating serious acts of torture reported by the Mapuche.
Moreover, the largest legal aberration was the fact of double jeopardy to which they were subjected our family, who for the same offense were prosecuted by the civilian and military justice at the same time. Although the Military Court of Valdivia, December 16 2010, our family decided to acquit credited for not finding the facts investigated. Currently the case is filed in the Court of Appeals of Concepción, without being aware of what their next processing. We are dismayed by the situation occurs that if the acquittal was not ratified and had a setback, ie re-processing to each of our relatives would be generated in this way, again, a double jeopardy, and that this fact was seen , tried and acquitted by the Military Courts, and now tried and convicted in the Court of Cañete.
you will be aware that the Chilean State has received a report by the Human Rights Commission in November 2010, which established the violation of human rights leaders and members of the Mapuche people have been prosecuted and convicted under Law 18,314, particularly through the use of witnesses "faceless" (IACHR Report 176/10). Today the state risked international condemnation by an international tribunal such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which can only be of concern to this Honorable Court.
Our family, all of our people social activists, Pilquiman Llanquileo Ramón, José Huenuche Reiman, Jonathan Mendez Huillical were sentenced to 20 years in prison and Hector Llaitul Carrillanca to 25 years. We are convinced that were violated rights guaranteed by the constitution, these are: due process and fair trial.
Therefore, we demand a mistrial and conduct a new trial by an independent, competent and impartial and without the application of Law 18,314, or Law Terrorism. Furthermore, we demand the immediate ratification of the acquittal that issued the Military Court of Valdivia.
We also present you some of the people and organizations who have joined us in this call for justice and solidarity with our just demand.
Sincerely,
Relatives of the Mapuche Political Prisoners sentenced in Cañete.
| | Name | Organization / Profession | Country / City |
| 1 | Adolfo Perez Esquivel | Nobel Peace Prize | Argentina |
| 2 | Ulises Urriola | president of the Ethics Commission against Torture in France | France |
| 3 | Alcira Argumedo | National Representative-South Project | Argentina |
| 4 | Jose Venturelli | Spokesperson European Secretariat of the Ethical Commission Against Torture CECT-SE | France |
| 5 | Marie-Christine Rybarczyk | International Observer for CECT-SE Harald Edelstam | France |
| 6 | Alcira Daroqui | Race Director of the Sociology of Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| 7 | Policy Center Public for Socialism (PPRC) | international observers at the trial of Cañete | Argentina |
| 8 | Marcia Esparza | Ph.D. Associate Professor. Department of Criminal Justice. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. | U.S. |
| 9 | Nestor Salazar Vega | Earth Association President Freedom to Arauco. | France |
| 10 | Claudio Venturelli Baron | Observador Internacional Comité Memoria y Justicia, Chile, Suiza y América Latina. | Suiza/ Francia |
| 11 | Maggiorina Balbuena | Dirigente CONAMURI (Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indigenous). | Paraguay |
| 12 | Patricio Rivera Millapan | President Association VILLAGE Mapuche. " | France |
| 13 | Ninth Moran Sandra Reyes. | Educator and artist | Guatemala |
| 14 | Berta Flores Cáceres | General Coordinator, Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras-COPINH. | Honduras |
| 15 | Claudia Korol | Journalist. Coordinator, Scarves popular education team in Rebellion. | Argentina |
| 16 | Liliana Daunes | feminist community Journalist National Radio. | Argentina |
| 17 | Alejandra Ciriza | Researcher CONICET and Professor | Argentina |
| 18 | Karla Lara | Feminist artists in strength and endurance. | Honduras |
| 19 | Franck Gaudichaud | Co-president of Association France Amerique Latine. | France |
| 20 | Marielle Palau | University Teaching | Paraguay |
| 21 | Guillermo Ortega | University Professor | Paraguay |
| 22 | Tomás Palau | Sociologist | Paraguay |
| 23 | Cristian Silva | Musician | Paraguay |
| 24 | Luis Red | Economist | Paraguay |
| 25 | Michael Barbut | S Messages sorted, New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), consolidate Collective ity with the Mapuche people | France |
| 26 | iguel M Sánchez | Doctor of Social Work, Academic Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina | Canada |
| 27 | Mónica Galaz | Regina Canadian Chilean Cultural Association (Chilean Canadian Cultural Association Regina) | Canada |
| 28 29 30 | Atilio Boron Civil Platform for Free Mapuche Political Prisoners. Collective Mapuche Peuma trawün, Barcelona | Sociologist and political scientist Civil Organization Civil Organization | Argentina Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain Spain |
