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Article: CHILE: INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS RISK DEATH IN LENGTHY HUNGER STRIKE.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- December 10, 2007
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By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 7, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Four Mapuche community leaders and a non-indigenous activist are in critical condition on the 58th day of their hunger strike in a southern Chilean prison, where they are serving time on charges of terrorism.
The hunger strikers are Jos Huenchunao, Jaime Marileo, Hctor Llaitul, Jos Millaln and Patricia Troncoso. Troncoso is the only one who is not a direct descendant of the Mapuche, Chile's main native group. Two of them had already fasted for more than two months in 2006.
The five fasters, who are only drinking water and mate, a traditional herbal infusion, have lost between 16 and ...