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tv   Defiance Of The Mapuche  Al Jazeera  June 24, 2018 8:33am-9:01am +03

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that came to be told us just give me ten centimeters of land in the east the second of a three part series israeli population were told that their troops were on the west bank of the so as can exploit the second week of the war in october on al-jazeera. i'm a pretty people of southern argentina and chile have long protested but also from sister lands at the hands of colonial era settlers territory that's maraton and cheap by huge temporist states which have left the region environmentally depleted and the indigenous inhabitants mired in poverty but recently the simmering resentment have been coming to the core weeping to find that walk.
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past a guinea and a vast wilderness of lakes forests and mountains that straddles the andes across the southernmost part of south america. it stands central home of the indigenous mapuche e people who were here when spanish conquistadores first arrived on the continent they have a four hundred years ago. since the nineteenth century it's been divided by the border between chile and argentina. but for the most that's always been over a tree by andrey. for generations they fought
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and mostly failed to get their rights to these lines recognized by both nations. don't know but there was a three podium. in up an elephant past your stomach on the last of us and. no those ancient simmering resentments a once again bursting into flames. the mood to cheat say they've been pushed to the brink by a surge of environmentally destructive industries such as logging. violence is spiraling and the region has seen a spate of olson attacks against timber companies and landholders. until a group of the islanders and i gotta say i see paul came out on the internet i don't think when that got me on it and i don't. expect they look to say that only
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now let me that he says he understood i offered. them all over to our us and got a second time gotten it away. in both chile and argentina it's brought from the one small into conflict with the forces of the state. planter one is i raise argentina's most prestigious museum of natural history it's a trikes millions of tourists every year. but the museums basement hides a dog secrecy. unbeknown to the visitors scurrying above there's a room strictly off limits which says much about the state's list while attitudes to its indigenous people. here all the skills of the bios and the pooch a captured in killed in the late nineteenth century as european settlers pushed
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science into patagonia in what is euphemistically called the conquest of the desert . their remains were on display until the one nine hundred sixty s. for more sailor or former band and i still can't see we'll have to toss. them bitter laugh or two f.a.'s haddam our complete us electrical italia completed and a secret or capitana. tour has sunk around the us well to simply meant it in a kind of body it'll no matter the end if it gets here because honey had been on marcelo valko and spent many years studying crimes committed against the mapuche join the does it campaign. well into the eighteen eighties children were being sold off as slaves even through advertisement in the national press her mother then he says yeah but entering. in yes on a handy course ina or syrian teeters. i reported. and
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honestly an interest. in it as he took time. and on the face of it prejudice against the country's indigenous people is still common particularly in the media. valley in india home of if whether or not they guys were mad have enough enough from michelle from india. he not suffer fatigue of him live you know here now either here in a given year. jose ramos is one of origin team is most controversial t.v. hosts his new show is watched by millions. of people but he was going to do we're. going to be. on that they need. to be in that. because i'm a mess. and you have. to get
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a wonderfully i don't condone this but in a sea of time you know just in the you know you think oh boy the you will hear us he'll hear you know israel romano you know anybody else this is you know with us and just the opposite you're over here almost but you know about the middle of the hand again over here and given syria we're going to. get to a point that bend it overwhelmed by the. much of the men to choose and some stroll land is now in the hands of foreign billionaires. like a child including mike mr bennett's home. who's a state company nine hundred fires and act as. an area of home of the size of wales and nine percent of the region's most comfortable land. i still love to get perspective if people are sad. and. then they get on top of us
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yeah mentality a lot go to the senate to make you sick you know. it's a dirty mess. two years ago a group of mapuche a reclaimed a tiny fraction of the benetton a stage and began to foment. many violent raids by special police units followed. young nobody will if they are allowed under some but as i said i fed us. we let mali start sorry could not critics say that since the election victory of president marusya machree two years ago the state's attitude to the mapuche e has become noticeably worse. last august the issue became a p.r. nightmare for the government when sunday all game old and a watchman pucci supporter disappeared while fleeing from police when the camp on the benetton estate was raided. it traumatised origin tina
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awakening painful memories of the country's thirty thousand disappeared who vanished during the dictatorship in the one nine hundred seventy s. . the president appeared on t.v. to deny involvement. you know what was it that coattail young get off for somebody and for that boy you're going to see him basim really if they were him or got to go . in a cell or somebody said i know you for three months the country was gripped by the fate of malden all day and then his body was found floating in this river cause of death drowning according to the autopsy. however the body appeared inexplicably in almost exactly the same place as he had last been seen fleeing the police and there had been numerous searches of the area leading many like nobel peace prize laureate adolfo paris ask
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a girl to die of thea fishel version. our the pilot of mr. sulu but he thought. there are out of. this and they're going to want to show us they don't all. know if there's almost a war. zone i will. suck and must i'm glad i asked steve. over the buddha in chile in part again you the police are on the trauma fences. to . put the problems of our own county is designated
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a conflict. the regional capital to move is full to bursting with paramilitary police. and the out oconee region there's this sense that there's a violence that is out of control and that should be somehow addressed by the authorities. of course it's not that we validate the violence are being committed in the region but you cannot use that as an excuse to go over human rights. a group of militant pucci calling itself coordinate dora come out yakka or come is engaged in a campaign of sabotage against the logging industry which it ses is destroying the environment. so far no one has been injured but the group has caused millions of dollars in damage. the government has responded
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by invoking an anti terror law drafted joining the time of former dictator general pinochet. it's affects the whole community they are out violently they raid every house or they throw tear gas loved clear why. one very recent case affected a preschool that was in class with little to one side that were all affected by the tear gas in some cases had to be taken to hospital. in the heart of the conflict in the small town of cosy prudy is celebrating its in turn around. the festivities have a distinctly morsel and. not far away at the regional course high's when to call is waiting at saeed.
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on the company the only damage to. the table. she chose is that a year ago her son was shot in the back by a police dog and while trying to defend his twelve year old brother. it's the first court case of its kind and for the movie hopes so high that the perpetrator won't get away with it this time as it turns out the sergeant doesn't even attend the hearing hardly surprising say activists no policeman has ever been convicted for shooting in the poochie but there is a new diet who she holds responsible. and said henderson wondered at the end of it i see. when you know that i came out of the same mateo.
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we hear me say other than a look at me and a low a level that i live yeah up and down the local insularis. sam but i am in the us and along the way i'm at that firm with that link it to some other us. that we want to go and i'm a whole hour but i love. on that end of it one. gilligan's wetted. song don't better not. include those who has a bell was that it. but it can last activists say brandon is one of hundreds of innocent peachey shot by the police in some cases fatally since the reintroduction of the empty chair
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a law. then we can get off on sunday ok come on the last of us at the see a little little that's not ok and. there's a lot in sign for mandalay confront accident. we asked general friends on e. he was in charge of the conflict zone to come and. pick them up only. like every political or law enforcement official we approached in chile and neighboring argentina the general refused to give us an interview. in contrast to the parent immunity enjoyed by the police it's almost impossible to find them a peachy leader who hasn't spent time in prison. hugo lekan ira named environmentalist has been a community leader for ten years and then you'll meet floyd premed and got to say
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that me and the thought of to defend their limo to deal with they i knew i'm going to say no and they won't allow god to send. hugo was wrongly accused of terrorism held for three years and then released. but i mean. i mean i don't know i read a little bit of him up with him at dinner but it's a human d.n.a. . better man at the met the gun control. there have been cases like the to people that have been accused more than once for terrorist crimes and acquitted in all of those cases so these people have some may have spent years of their life that were spent in prison for absolutely no reason. it's an issue this protest hopes to highlight the movie and argue and. tell this to let in and can tell it all my fortune. no solomon think i'll sell
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a. scene i'll get them in south our look for that but i don't know tell me you are not in. the mood to say they have a loss to protest the piracy and demonstrations like this one in the capital santiago or common. but they are often brought to an abrupt end by the police. last may fall below those watching a peaceful protest from the relative safety of the roof of them a p.c. university into muka when the police suddenly attacked swat thank you for much of. the door. and i can say. your software like.
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you know is going to you're. going to get. better because you. know what are you going to. that's the heart of the conflict is life. in the poochie say that for decades they've been pushed to the margins of that and central time often to make way for forestry plantations where fast growing trees unsuited to patagonia have wrought havoc with the environment. that you know the fatalities. all he. said of. being latino. just. like your soul.
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that we're looking to get and yeah i want to first olds you know the. young people that the threat of violence is never far off. that when his brother complained about a stolen horse to a policeman two months ago he was shot dead by the officer leaving a widow and child in legally. for the last twenty years the mapuche have been trying to take back their land occupying and protecting the environment. the authorities response is all too often dead play . this is like we pray which is surrounded by logging concessions it's
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a primary center of the poochie resistance. you. delegate the way you. feel to look in. the scene calculate your for it. get there but i think the. second lot of of course we know the train i'm going on that us but. we're back in the precipice. why many prefer peaceful protests some within the mapuche community feel that direct action is now the only open. we've been invited to meet handkercher jade to the leader of the group responsible for the acts of sabotage. we have picked up as a rendezvous in
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a remote village and then taken to a hideout in the mountains. that are less than any sound. i would i'm afraid i'm going to. the time he. picked them up with. hector tells us he survived three assassination attempts and to spend ten years behind bars during his campaign manager. under the weight of. what they call the name up once again but the processor would have been three thirty and. they somebody sione. them all over our ass and got it. thank god turn it away we'll. be. here said i want people to action they take that case by and contradictory and.
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they must give ammo they could convict on of the known us for the c.n.n. of course the press. with the picture of conservative sebastian pinera in last year's chilean presidential election some feel that the conflict is likely to intensify. the candy out. if she could just figure out. during the campaign piniella received this glowing indorsement from oregon teen is also cross-check president. who is here and i'm quite sure. he has heard us you are just like us so here you are at the end of your first got here thank you for the. joint approach with neighboring own container to the military chief question is now being formulated and pena has voted to broaden the scope of the
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country's already fierce unteach era of those we are worried about what might happen we have always said that the terrorist law needs to be reformed but that was for us to be done in terms of ensuring due process standards and going in that direction will likely do the opposite. back over the border in argentina the situation is also deteriorating. this is by our last check on the shores of lake no one notable for its zero point style architecture. it's one of origin teen as she kissed resorts deep within party ghanian. but there is tension in the air. while we were there a manhunt was in progress and there had been another shooting at the mit peachey
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community is he at them you know the one open some ok the other i mean oh yes i won't go a lot more to be so you know rough i don't know where it was the end but on the c.m. on the market is that him again once the market fell on russia was part of a group of some fifty line the sma pitching which is occupied a small area outside barlow in order to fall. you know father not that i want to write that i thought ok. you know i got a career that. the authorities said they were terrorists and raided the community. and so i don't know. and i don't know. that i wanted to. they didn't want to go but you know many died in other. diarrhea other good imo water all day to day you know yeah.
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it's full in months to the day since the disappearance of santiago mold and all day the rani organized in the results time to move the date is not also remembering russian law well he was also become a monster to the cool those days and old news as protesters mix with holiday makers . effigies of president mockery the police chief and benetton car each to a statue celebrating general rocha the man who led the desert campaign to pacify them the poochie in the nineteenth century one hundred thirty years ome and the still suffering the consequences.
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