Giving opinion

Catrillanca’s case.

On November 14 of this year, a Mapuche villager was killed by the Chilean police. In the context of the multiple confrontations that are experienced daily in southern Chile, between Mapuche and police settlers, with a high number of indigenous people killed.

That day, while this resident, named Camilo Catrillanca, worked on his tractor, he received a bullet in the head. This was witnessed by a 15-year-old boy who saw how the police violently broke into the countryside and ended the life of the worker.

The Chilean police has tried to hide at all costs the evidence of the events, however a series of tests show the actions of this institution. This has been described by many people as a more committed genocide in the history of Chile and the state of Chile has tried to go unnoticed in this bad and shameful management of those who govern us. The worst thing is that the excuses they have presented have turned into a mockery for the Mapuche people.

In that sense, there are still many things to be clarified and that the state should take charge and put on their pants to assume the errors and genocide they have committed. Finally, if they will not do justice against murderous policemen and there will be no self-criticism (or auto-criticism) from the police, the minimum is to ask for forgiveness.

Hopefully it is not like that and justice is done, but the Mapuche people will not keep quiet until they achieve it.