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Chile: Anger grows over Mapuche killing
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20.11.2018
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Clashes broke out between police and protesters at a large demonstration in Santiago on Monday after a young indigenous man was fatally shot be officers.
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to break up the demonstration. Several arrests were also made.
Camilo Catrillanca, 24, was shot and killed last Wednesday in what police say was an operation against local car thieves.
Two senior police officials have since resigned after it emerged that video evidence of the shooting was destroyed.
The incident happened in the Araucania region in southern Chile where Mapuche activists have long clashed with farmers and logging companies over land rights. Catrillanca was the grandson of a Mapuche indigenous leader.
Clashes broke out between police and protesters at a large demonstration in Santiago on Monday after a young indigenous man was fatally shot be officers.
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to break up the demonstration. Several arrests were also made.
Camilo Catrillanca, 24, was shot and killed last Wednesday in what police say was an operation against local car thieves.
Two senior police officials have since resigned after it emerged that video evidence of the shooting was destroyed.
The incident happened in the Araucania region in southern Chile where Mapuche activists have long clashed with farmers and logging companies over land rights. Catrillanca was the grandson of a Mapuche indigenous leader.
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