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Article: CHILE: INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS RISK DEATH IN LENGTHY HUNGER STRIKE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- December 10, 2007
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Daniela Estrada
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-10-2007
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 22 ...