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– Does the Chilean People Support Torture?
Norberto Oyagata, president of the Kichwa otavalo people of Ecuador, did not know that some athletes and TV personalities – such as Marcelo Ríos or Tonka Tomicic – supported the attacks They suffered two of the persons accused of the crime of the Worker Margarita Ancacoy, who was savagely beaten in the district of the Republic while she was going to work.
That is why he reacts surprised at the question of Third PM about what he thinks of these sayings. He knew that the Chileans were angry, but not that some dared to endure the tortures. Now, he fears that this anger is materializing in racist behavior against the Otavaleños living in Chile.
Oyagata had the thankless task of apologizing for the murder committed by some of the members of the indigenous community that he directs. This is his first conversation with a Chilean media.
-The Otavalos have never had this background. We hope that they will not judge us for a single fact – says the indigenous leader in La Tercera PM of Quito, where he lives, with a tone of frustration to see that the reputation of his people, known as the l 39; ambbadador of Ecuadorian culture, can be away from it.
Therefore, as the reprisals suffered by those accused of the crime of Margarita Ancacoy are known, Ecuadorian indigenous leaders were convinced that they could not remain silent, even they were criminals. That is what their position requires of them.
Nor can they give space to punish an entire people for the mistake of the few. A spokesperson who also joined another leader: Patricio Lema, president of the Kichwa community in the city of Otavalo.
-We are not known to be delinquents, but to be attached to work, culture, and tradition. And to work around culture, such as crafts, music. We go from one country to another by exposing what we are. Crime is not something that identifies us, it's an isolated problem – Lema explains.
For neither of the leaders, it was easy to publicly ask that the human rights of this group who perpetrated a brutal crime be respected.
They did not even know young people personally, but they explained that just as they sympathized with the Chileans after the murder of Margarita Ancacoy, they also understand the pain of the parents of the detainees who suffer the humiliations that they have suffered in Ecuador. submitted
A task that in this case has become particularly thankless because the crime was committed by foreigners in a country that opened to them and where live more than two thousand Otavaleños, recognized for the sale of Crafts in the streets of Santiago and for their traditional clothing: long skirts and embroidered blouses, in the case of women, and hats and braids in men.
– We hope that no Ecuadorian migrant will be the cause of retaliation or cases of racism – Oyagata asks.
-We will not justify the crime. They have to pay for it. We want it to be very clear. We offer our condolences to Mrs. Margarita's family. But where will we go if we continue with this hate ?, reflects Lema.
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In one of the videos circulating on social networks, we see the moment when the accused of the murder of Margarita Ancacoy flee from the crime scene, in the middle of the neighborhood From the Republic, Leaving the Worker
Although the recording is unclear, one can distinguish that the attackers are all men and that they have long hair tied in a braid. It is precisely in this last detail that they repaired almost immediately the Ecuadorian migrants who saw the pictures on TV.
Two days after the Otavaleños committed the crime, their appearance changed dramatically. The detainees in Santiago I prison, where they were placed in pretrial detention, were quick to "settle their accounts": beat them, apply electricity to them and cut their hair in front of the prisoners. gendarmes.
social networks a video of the two detainees completely shaven, revealing some of the humiliations to which they were subjected.
For the Otavaleño people, this "jailer's punishment" is nothing more than an act of racism.
– If there is something for which we have been historically discriminated against, it is to wear our long hair – says Lema.
According to ancestral tradition, men can not even touch their hair with scissors. This is why indigenous leaders do not believe that they have shaved their compatriots by chance, although this practice is also applied against the Chule prisoners.
– It is a symbolic aggression against an entire people who for centuries has struggled to maintain their identity. It's a message that has been sent with dedication to all Otavaleños – ensures the leader Patricio Lema.
– With that they removed their energy and vitality – says Oyagata worried about the impact that this may have on the inmates' mood.
When Lema learned that her compatriots had been razed, she mentally reviewed the stories she had heard so many times about the punishments that the Spaniards applied to the rebellious Indians
– They cut their hair as a symbol Submission C is very serious that this will happen again. It's an aggression towards our people. And we will denounce it in any case that is necessary – adds the native chief.
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Norberto Oyagata, told La Tercera PM that he is already right to worry for the safety of his people based in Chile. Some of the members of her community with whom she speaks through social networks told her that they feared that because of the mistake of some people, they would be stigmatized.
-The Otavalo is a collective subject-clarifies.
A quick scan through social networks allows you to understand your fear. Flor, an Otavaleña living in Santiago, told La Tercera PM that she heard that one of her neighbors threatened her with a knife on Monday because she was Ecuadorian. She is sure it is not a coincidence that this happened after the crime against Margarita Ancacoy.
Franklin, another community member who returned to Chile yesterday after spending a few days in Ecuador, says his relatives have already warned that there could be retaliation.
-Because these young people become murderers, he laments.
Last Sunday, more than 150 Otavaleños living in Santiago gathered at Parque O 'Higgins to talk about this topic. According to Flor, who asks to keep his last name in reserve, there is a generalized way to be attacked. At this meeting, parents are committed to being aware of every movement of their children so that they do not commit a similar crime.
With all this in mind, Oyagata accompanied the families of the detainees who protested last Wednesday the Embbady of Chile in Ecuador against the badaults suffered by the two detainees in the Santiago I prison. According to him, nobody deserves this treatment. Even though they are criminals
-We said that they should be tried but still in full transparency and without any discrimination-emphasizes.
In addition to the relatives demonstrated in Quito, Chile, Otavaleños went to the Embbady of Ecuador in Santiago to demonstrate their repudiation against the crime of Margarita Ancacoy.
"The Otavaleña community in the world and especially in Chile has always identified by its simplicity, humility and dedication to working as true ambbadadors of Ecuadorian culture, crafts and traditions," he said. the Embbady in a statement
. : "Delegates and entire families from this community have approached the Embbady to express the pain they feel for this unfortunate event and have expressed their great concern about the possible emergence of the community. acts of xenophobia in an idea of unfair generalization of their ethnicity. " 19659002] -The Chilean people has the right to be resentful – says the indigenous leader Norberto Oyagata.
Lema also understands anger, but invites the Chileans to put themselves in the other's shoes
– What would they do if it happened to a Chilean? – application
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