Public Statement from Mapuche organisations on the murder of Alex Lemun
Wednesday November 13, 2002
Last Thursday the 7th. of November on the Santa
Elisa estate in the county of Ercilla, our brother EDMUNDO ALEX LEMUN SAAVEDRA
was shot and wounded by the police. He dies five days later on Tuesday
the 12th. at around 6 am. In the face of these events the Mapuche organisations
of Temuco wish to make the following statement:
Today the Mapuche nation is in mourning after the
death of our brother, a martyr, who has paid the price of freedom with
his life and who gives us courage and inspiration to fight with greater
strength to regain the land which is ours and which sustains the essence
of our being.
The murder of our brother by the Chilean state
shows the racism and extreme violence with which the current government
has tried silence our just demands.
EDMUNDO, by sacrificing your life for the return
of our ancestral rights - rights denied by the secret belief in racial
superiority which exists in the minds of those who are today rulers of
a country supposedly in the process of development - you have left in our
hearts that strength which drives people whose thirst for justice has long
gone unquenched.
We also want to say that this event again exposes
the way the police and the Chilean state clearly provoke our people
As organisations, institutions and students we
call for all the regional bodies which make up the Mapuche nation to come
together in various demonstrations to show our rejection of the repressive
approach taken by the Chilean state towards the problems of the Mapuche.
The funeral will be on Thursday the 14th in the
Requen Lemun community in the county of Ercilla.
We invite all public and trade union organisations
to join in a demonstration on Monday the 18th at 12pm., leaving from Plaza
Hospital.
Corporación NEWEN
Centro de Documentación LIWEN
Agrupación Mapuche KONAPEWMAN
Coordinación de comunidades en conflictos ambientales IX
Región
Aukin Ko Zomo
Asoc. Gremial Ad-Mapu
Carrera de Educación Básica Intercultural UCT
Programa Compensatorio UCT
We Kintun
Estudiantes Mapuche Secundarios
Hogar y Centro de Desarrollo Sociocultural Mapuche (Las Encinas)
Hogar Pvrampeyvm Zugu
Hogar Padre las Casas
Ayja Rewe de Xuf Xuf
Asoc. Indígena para la Salud Makewe Pelale
casa de Arte Mapuche "Mapu Nuke Kimce Wejin
Identidad Territorial Lafkenche
Coordinadora de Comunidades en Conflicto de Collipulli
Asociación Ñancucheo de Lumaco
Consejo de Werkenes del Lago Budi
Comunidad José Gineo Ñanco Rofue
Asoc. Pikun Füta Huillimapu de Valdivia
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Agrupación Mapuche de Temuko Konapewman
organización de jóvenes técnicos y profesionales
konapewman@hispavista.com
http://www.galeon.com/pewman
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