Villa Mascardi: Mapuche Parliament of Río Negro requested a dialogue table

The entity’s spokesman criticized that in the last 24 hours there has been a solitary confinement.
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The Coordinator of the Parliament of the Mapuche Tehuelche People of Río Negro, together with social organizations, held a press conference in San Carlos de Bariloche in repudiation of the actions of the security forces in the Villa Mascardi eviction operation, which concluded with seven women detained.

In addition, from the entity they announced that in the last hours they asked to form a dialogue table with authorities of the National Executive and the Government of Rio Negro for next October 12.

The conference was held around this Thursday noon at the headquarters of the National University of Comahue, in Bariloche, and brought together members of different communities from the province.

In the last hours of Wednesday, four of the seven women arrested during the eviction operation they were transferred to the Ezeiza federal prison, in the province of Buenos Aires.

On the other hand, two other women were not transferred because they both have babies of a few months and are breastfeeding, but they continue to be detained.

While one last woman, with an advanced pregnancy, is admitted to the Ramón Carrillo hospital in Bariloche.

defense attorneys they already appealed the measure of the federal judge substitute Silvina Domínguez, who ordered the transfer of the detainees.

“What’s going on is reminiscent of the Desert Campaign”

Referring to the judicial decision, the werken (spokesperson) of the Mapuche Tehuelche Parliament of Río Negro, Orlando Carriqueo, assured that “these are very difficult days for us as a people, what is happening is reminiscent of the Desert Campaign.”

Carriqueo also criticized a series of measures that the judge ordered since Tuesday afternoon, after the arrests made in the properties of the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu community of Villa Mascardi,

In particular, the entity’s spokesman criticized that in the last 24 hours there have been “a solitary confinement, a summary secreta delay for them to enable the defense, so as not to intervene in the cause”.

Carriqueo said that “impunity” causes “pain” to the Mapuche people and called for the “Argentine Human Rights Secretariat” to intervene in the conflict.

Finally, Carriqueo warned that “Violence in this territory has always been imposed by the State” and he said that they are calling the communities to “strengthen their spirituality, because there we are going to find the temperance to find the path of dialogue.”

For its part, the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and the lawyers of the four women transferred to Ezeiza filed a corrective habeas corpus against that decision.

From CELS they charged that the four women from the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu community were transferred from their territory, in the surroundings of Bariloche, to the Ezeiza prison “in an illegitimate, arbitrary and disproportionate manner by authorities of the Argentine Federal Police in compliance with a judicial order also illegitimate, arbitrary, disproportionate and excessive”.

Source: Telam

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