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Chile: Mapuche Women Demand Withdrawal of Police Forces

Written bySilvia Viñas

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Posted 3 August 2012 15:49 GMT

Leyla Noriega from online citizen newspaper La Opiñón [es] reports that three indigenous Mapuche women have been occupying UNICEF headquarters in Santiago for over one week. The women are requesting that the organization ask the Ministry of Interior to withdraw police forces from Mapuche communities in southern Chile.

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