Several Mapuche communities were attacked by police squads. Amongst those injured was a pregnant woman and 4 year old girl. Armed men, hired by the logging companies, have burned machinery owned by the companies so that the Mapuche can be falsely accused and prosecuted for criminal damage. In mid-December, as protests grew throughout Chile's Mapuche region, an intensive military crackdown was effected by the Chilean Government against the Mapuche. The imprisoned men were ruthlessly arrested by the police, sometimes in the early hours of the morning as part of an intense military operation, acting under the provisions of the Internal State Security and Anti-Terrorist Laws.
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