Source: Azkintuwe
Twelve Mapuche political prisoners loudly berated branded a liar and a "faceless witnesses " prosecutors, putting a stop to a new hearing in the Court of Cañete, 350 km north of Temuco, where they are prosecuted for allegedly "Ambush" the prosecutor Mario Elgueta, so two years ago within the Community Emergency in the coastal town of Tirúa
When the interrogation began the first "faceless witnesses"-from 36 in the total list of Ministry Public-12 of the 17 Mapuche defendants stood up and spoke out to demand a fair trial. In this way expressed their opposition to the testimony of protected witness number 13, a forestry worker who said the villager Mininco Nolberto Leiva Parra as the author of a shot at his truck in an incident on 2 August 2008 within an area of \u200b\u200bthe timber.
"Turn your face," replied the accused to the witness for the prosecution, which was followed by another 11 of the 17 defendants. The remaining 5 are charged with misdemeanors and are therefore at liberty and with the approval of not being in the audience. Then the group proceeded to leave the courtroom cañetino heading to prison, but before Llaitul Hector, leader of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco and to whom they are asking for 103 years in prison, he called the prosecutor in charge of research, Andrés Cruz that " stop lying."
should be noted that the use of undercover witnesses has been rejected by the defense of the Mapuche, who consider it inappropriate to be used for people who do not know who they are, considering that state in a room adjoining the court and back to a television camera. The defendants, who claimed to be political prisoners before the magistrates, described as "lies" the evidence adduced by the prosecution at the trial and criticized the maintenance of the Terrorism Act, which authorizes the prosecution to use the disputed witnesses.
Mapuche discomfort
What happened in court could lead to the resumption of the hunger strike, say Sources close to the commoners. Monday, himself president of the Episcopal Conference of Chile , Ricardo Ezzati warned that the hunger strike that held political prisoners and lasted for two months, "could be reactivated" in Mapuche Country jails .
" that is very specifically so, I have reported several weeks ago and I have some background of this issue where it belongs, trying again to be dialogue partner," he said in a press conference Archbishop of Concepción, who served as mediator between the Chilean Government and the commoners during the fast.
Ezzati said the main reason for the strike would resume the maintenance, by the Attorney General, the formalization of terrorist crimes charges against 17 of the 38 Mapuche who led the fast. Ezzati, who on Friday was elected president of the Episcopal Conference, said that "all powers can find the ways to find a solution to this conflict ." " Hopefully this issue with the use of reason, can find a way of dealing ," the Archbishop of Concepción.
Temuko Prosecutor
In the Mapuche country's capital, the regional prosecutor of La Araucanía, Ljubetic Francisco, confirmed the Chilean Ministry of Public works to get two former FARC members come to Chile to participate as "witnesses" in the same number of trials that made against Mapuche activists in the coming months . As the trial under way in these days in Cañete, in them the prosecution invoked the Terrorism Act Pinochet.
" We will use all means of evidence will be offered in each of the charges and within them there are some witnesses who are booked identity" among which are the two Colombians who recognize-as-a Mapuche Ljubetic in formation with the FARC. He added that regardless of administrative level and Chancery injunction should ensure the safety of witnesses, since even in their own country have special protection measures.
Ljubetic said he intends to bring " two witnesses who are benefiting from a system of state protection in Colombia and are demobilized FARC revolutionary forces, gave evidence and were able, within a number of photograph observed the effect, recognize some Mapuche people were in the camp of the FARC in the Colombian jungle on the border with Ecuador . "Needless to emphasize that this has been denied by the community.
lend witnesses statements in the attacks on the machine Tur Bus passenger in Temuco bypass, the July 28, 2009, and the arson attack at Fundo San Leandro, in the town of Lautaro, which occurred on January 11 last year. The prosecutor said Ljubetic " expect hearings promptly can be made, "referring to the long hunger strike staged political prisoners in five prisons and that all the defendants joined by Terrorism Act held in Temuco.
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