Police Shoot Mapuche Youth
This week, Chilean police shot 17-year-old Mapuche activist Edmundo Alex
Lemun Saavedra in the head, critically wounding him. The shooting was part
of an attack against a nonviolent occupation of the Mininco forest by the
indigenous Mapuche. The police violence comes on the heels of the murder of
two community leaders in Alto Biobo and the arrest of another under
dictatorship-era terrorist laws being used by the current, 'democratic'
government to repress social and political movements. The Chilean
government and military are holding dozens of Mapuche political prisoners.
[ Read the entire feature. ]
[ CMI Chile | Mapuche Nation | Represion a comunidades Mapuche [es] ]
http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open
AND
John Pape...
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/2505.php
I met John Pape briefly during my last visit to South Africa. He helped
me immensely in navigating around the Cape Town left and was clearly an
important and respected figure in the emerging post-ANC left.
It seems that John's stature on the SA left was prominent and in no way
was he leading an ``underground'' existance. Surely, it cannot be ruled
out that the ANC welcomes his removal from the scene.
Are the comrades there thinking of launching some sort of defence
campaign for John? Perhaps to prevent his extradition to the US and even
to demand his freedom?
