Friday, September 24, 2010

The mapuche conflict


The demands of the mapuches is not new, since many years ago there are problems, it is some historic, but the facts recently have happened, show us that the hunger strike make the problems evident, the strike make visible the conflict. It is lamentable that in Chile the problems crop out just with strong measures, since the demand of mapuches nobody know it before the hunger strike.
The anti-terrorism law was created with one sense, but as all law, the way to application is very relative and in the case of the mapuches, have been abuses.
The military justice is an example the abuse to mapuches, since the justice must be equal to all, the cases exceptional where these law is applied don’t must apply to mapuches, since they are as anyone Chilean. The prejudices whit the mapuches have been historical, since many decades ago have formed an image about the mapuche: lazy, alcoholic, violent, etc. these images correspond to prejudices. The laws against to mapuches are corresponding to an image and separate of the idea of justice that must govern to all.
I think the mapuches in hunger strike represent the feeling of majority of the natives of our country, but the discord or difference is in the methods, since the hunger strike is a way extreme to get some, then the difference is in the methods.
I think that if PiƱera has done enough to solve the situation or not, is not the question bottom, since the presidents of “concertaciĆ³n” and all the politics previously don´t do enough.
In these cases there are an utilization for the politics, they just looking for his own recompense and don´t answer the problem.

1 comment:

  1. I agree in the sense that no president in 180 years has really cared about the natives from Chile. And the fact that they have to start a hunger strike shows it.

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