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Increase to 31 prisoners on hunger strike Mapuche in Chile.

Santiago de Chile, July 29 .- Two other Mapuche prisoners have joined the hunger strike settled a group of prisoners began 17 days ago in Chile, bringing to 31 inmates, protesting demanding an end to application of the Terrorism Act against this ethnic group.

Civic organizations said today, two new internal seconded the measure on Wednesday are in the prison of Lebu,, GW2 gold, the Bio Bio region, about 530 km south of Santiago.

In liquid indefinite hunger strike are also 15 other prisoners of Temuco and 8 of Angola (region of La Araucania), as well as five of Concepcion (Bo Bo) and one of Valdivia (Region de Los Rios).

The Mapuche who started the strike on Aug. 12 in Temuco and Concepcion have lost, tibia gold, between three and seven kilos in weight, according to his family.

The remaining dndants have been added gradually to this initiative.

So far, the Chilean government has not commented on the situation of these prisoners, which also require the return of ancestral lands they consider freedom of all those "Mapuche political prisoners."

Among its main demands include the end of, aika gold, the application of the Terrorism Act, which allows the accused in custody for two years, to prevent dnse lawyers access to witnesses in the investigation and "protected", whose name and face held in reserve.

The executive director of Amnesty International (AI) in Chile, Sergio Laurenti, declare that this organization has not yet said anything about this because you requested information to the spokesmen of the prisoners about their strategy.

However, Laurenti said that "Amnesty does not validate initiatives involving health put at risk through a hunger strike."

The Bishop of Temuco, Manuel Camilo Vial, Radio Cooperativa declare today that although he did not have asked for mediation in this conflict has always spoken out against hunger strikes because he felt "pressure is a method that makes it impossible to conduct a dialogue. "

The former Socialist senator Alejandro Navarro, who today visited the prisoners in Temuco, I think that "it is logical that the Government alone is pending what happens to the prisoners in Cuba, making a blind eye to what is happening in our country. "

The coordinator of the Ethical Commission Against Torture, boiled Lara, coincided with the Parliamentary Social Broad Movement (MAS) to consider "giving more dividends will surely talk about what happens in Venezuela or Cuba."

"Here are very concerned about the politicians and the press of what is happening in Cuba or Venezuela, but I have not heard one who cares about the Mapuche people or victims of repression in Chile," he told

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