Blog 9: My Indignation
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My Indignation.
Chile is a country of contrasts, we have plenty of landscapes, supposedly all the climates of the globe, social and economic stability yet…a monocultural and disrespectful country.
Historically from the different institutions, the country has sought for unity and social stability by means of making invisible the claims of several parts of society supporting only some aspect of national development and forgetting some other (i.e. we are still one of the countries with the biggest inequality rates) and though we have clearly made progress in several topics and areas, such as the homosexuals claims, educational costs, opening up of new and diverse economic sectors, etc. We still have a long way to go in order to make this country more inclusive, more “just” and a more balanced society.
Years ago we suffered from a dictatorship, later on, we had an economic boom. As a country, we have long before - and also after the dark ages, decided to endorse to the Human Rights Declaration, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Agreement 169 which is the convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, and still nowadays, 2017, those documents which have built the Chilean Society from the constitutional grounds, are agreements and rationalities that are overlooked and even heavily disrespected, in particular, in certain actions that ought to be condemned and not allowed by society all together.
I am particularly talking about the news launched last week which tells about a group of Special Forces from the Chilean police entering and attacking a school in the south of Chile, where many indigenous people live and where many struggles are occurring at a daily basis. The news let us know about a big group of policemen entering the school after having threatened all the population inside by throwing lacrimogenous gas, apparently, in the search for extremists hiding inside and or around the school premises. Obviously this news was commented by the off-stream press and was published by several independent media (I copied some links below this commentary)
In such actions we can see what I was talking about regarding a disrespectful, monocultural and struggling society because the news is not important because it relates to the social sector which little emphasis has been placed upon, and beyond confirming my claims, I believe there are bigger questions which stimulate in me a bigger indignation.
After watching this piece of news I wonder about up to what point we are going to not think over the extreme conditions in which the conflict with the Mapuches is being managed, I wonder about the day in which we will stop denying we have a long and deep conflict with our Indigenous population which obviously arises with the fact that one way or another, as a government, the agreement 169 has not been respected. I also wonder of how this action, against human rights and furthermore, these actions which break the endorsement to Children Rights, will be penalized by justice if penalized at all.
Entering a school and having war-like behaviours inside or around a school makes the lives of all those children and all that community sink in fear, it makes a whole community full of anger, and furthermore, not even in war events will police or navy be allowed to enter a school with unprotected children, just because soldiers have the morals of not affecting so much the future generations of a culture, unless the aim is genocide, soldiers would respect and ensure safety for children, but in the case of the Chilean police… I wonder, where’s their morals?
With this blog I would like to state my absolute indignation with the police officers, with the central and regional government of the Araucanía, I would like to state the strongest disapproval of their way to conduct the conflict and why not state it, they are going against human rights with the actions they are performing which by all means must be penalized and furthermore, I consider they should be sent to jail on the grounds that they stained the souls of a whole community, and hence, of the new generations of Temucuicui …. And to me, it is almost the same than killing the future for a child, which is also a felony, a bad action, a despicableand vicious crime.
I still don't understand why the police in Chile has the power to use lacrimogenous gas as much as they want. It's ridiculous they use it for everything, it's very dangerous. I think it should exist a better regulation for the use of it.
ResponderBorrarI think it's impresive how human rights have beeing violated again and again along the history of mankind. How can it be possible that this keep happening, the worst is that in our times this abuse it's complately conscious and that makes it a weapon, and that can't be alright
ResponderBorrarReuturn Wallmapu to the indigean people!
ResponderBorrarA country or a state that does not know how to respect his roots, is a country that has no respect for any person :(
ResponderBorrarThe press is one of the great accomplices. Fortunately, exist independent press that talk about these abuses.
ResponderBorrarIt is incredible that it is mas important the money and the persons with resources that the children Mapuche and his families. That Mapuche happen every day acts of violence in opposition to the communities and the news does not report
ResponderBorrari think the police often use their "power" in the wrong ways, and in Chile there's no respect or knowledge about the indigenous, that's really bad.
ResponderBorrarI still can't understand why the police have the power to destruct anything in its way when the problems become a little more complicated. I mean, the power abuse it is ridiculously unfair.
ResponderBorrarchecked.
ResponderBorrar