translated from Spanish: Mapuche leaders demands “demilitarize” the area of La Araucanía and called to continue “disobedience”

This Saturday a mapuche leaders group met in the community of Temucuicui in Ercilla, Araucania region area. The meeting called Trawun convened by leaders from the various territories to agree actions to follow after confirmation that the death of the young man Camilo Catrillanca was a homicide.
Out of the meeting, Marcelo Catrillanca, father of the slain villager, read a statement from five points. In it, the leaders demand the demilitarization of the mapuche territory. Specifically the output of the unit called command jungle, belonging to police.
“We call on the Government to urgently remove and eviscerate such police unit, considering that this constitutes a permanent threat to violate our right to live in peace and violating the rights of children, women and the elderly.”
At the same time, in the Declaration the leaders recalled that it is urgent to establish a “Commission for historical clarification” that set a standard on the truth regarding the occupation of the mapuche territory.
In addition, leaders set out actions that agreed to follow. “We call upon all our mapuche people to continue implementing and developing the disobedience, performing various mobilizations in the wallmapuche and all the Chilean territory. We are grateful to the Chilean people, national and international organizations for their solidarity with the murder of our brother Camilo Catrillanca and invite you to continue to support the promotion of our fundamental rights and freedoms which us as Mapuche people”, he concluded.

Original source in Spanish