Chile Police Tear Gas Indigenous Mapuche Children During Raid

Published 15 June 2017 (6 hours 4 minutes ago)

“The children cried and shouted out of fear of seeing so many policemen,” Temucuicui community leaders said.


Chilean national police officers tear gassed several Indigenous Mapuche children during a raid in Temucuicui, Nodal reported Thursday, adding that the some of the victims fainted as a result.

The police officers, known as Carabineros, carried out the raid at the G-816 School in the autonomous Indigenous community. The Carabineros have not commented on the situation.

“This raid generated major tension in the community school, where the children remained in their classrooms,” Temucuicui community leaders said in a statement.

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Pinochet put Chile’s carbineros to work on his suspected political enemies in the country as soon as the US under Nixon helped install him on the “throne” by violently removing Allende.

Judicial Reform, Military Justice, and the Case of Chile’s Carabineros

Meredith Fensom
University of Florida
Law & Policy in the Americas Program
Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.



Carabineros were active participants in some of the most
heinous crimes and human rights abuses committed by the military government.
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Such repression was the institutional responsibility of the armed forces and of many
of its operative units.
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The Carabineros were the military branch with the most
direct civilian contact and situated themselves in the frontline of Chile’s war against
suspected subversives throughout the country’s dictatorship.

In February 1991, following Chile’s return to democracy, the eight-member National
Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, established in 1990 by then-President
Patricio Aylwin to clarify the whole truth on the most serious violations of human
rights during the military rule, released its report. The National Commission for Truth
and Reconciliation Report is popularly known as the Rettig Report for former Senator
Raúl Rettig, president of the commission. The Rettig Report established that an
estimated 3,000 were killed or disappeared during the dictatorship. According to the
Rettig Report, over 50 percent of the military regime era human rights violations
resulting in death had been carried out by the Carabineros.
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https://www.law.ufl.edu/_pdf/academics/centers-clinics/institutes/lpap/case_chile_carabineros.pdf