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Article

23 Aug 2004

Author:
Human Rights Watch

Chile: Mapuches Convicted of “Terrorism”

The recent sentencing of four Mapuche Indians and a supporter on terrorism charges is a grossly exaggerated response to unrest in southern Chile, Human Rights Watch and the Indigenous Rights Program at the University of the Frontier’s Institute of Indigenous Studies said today...The five were sentenced...to ten years in prison for “terrorist arson,” after they were found responsible for setting fire to a pine plantation on the Poluco Pidenco estate near Ercilla, land that belongs to the logging company Mininco.