Post 7: My Indignation.

MY INDIGNATION: 

Today we are going to be talking about our personal perspectives. Even IF they might sound a bit controversial for some, it'll be an instance to write about what we believe, needs to have a word and a thought or two.

Instructions:

Select a topic of your interest, something you are passionate about and express your views freely and cohesively.

Write 230 words and make comments on 3 of your classmate's blogs and also on your teacher's blog.

Happy Writing.

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My Indignation.

Chile is a country of contrasts, we have plenty of landscapes, supposedly all the climates of the globe, social and economic stability. Yet…a monocultural and disrespectful country.

Historically from the different institutions, the country has sought for unity and social stability, unfortunately in my view, supporting only some aspect of national development and forgetting some others (i.e. we are still one of the countries with the highest inequality rates) and though we have clearly made progress on several topics and areas, such as minorities' claims, educational costs, opening up of new and diverse economic sectors, etc. We still have a long way to go in order to make this country more inclusive, “fairer” and a more balanced society.

Years ago we suffered from a dictatorship, later on, we had an economic boom. As a country, we have long before - and also after the dark ages-, decided to endorse to the Human Rights Declaration, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Agreement 169 which is the convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, and still nowadays, 2018, those documents which have built the Chilean Society from the constitutional grounds, are agreements and rationalities that are overlooked and even heavily disrespected, in particular, in certain actions that ought to be condemned and not allowed by society all together.

I am talking particularly  about the news launched last year which informed us about a group of Special Forces from the Chilean police entering and attacking a school in the south of Chile, where many indigenous people live and where many struggles are occurring at a daily basis. The news let us know about a big group of policemen entering the school after having threatened all the population inside by throwing lacrimogenous gas, apparently, in the search for extremists hiding inside and/or around  the school premises. Obviously this news was commented by the off-stream press and was published by several independent media (I have copied some links below this commentary)

In such actions we can see what I was talking about regarding a disrespectful, monocultural and struggling society because the news is not important since it relates to the social sector which little emphasis has been placed upon, and beyond confirming my claims, I believe there are bigger questions which stimulate in me a bigger indignation.

After having watched this piece of news I wonder about up to what point we are going to not think over the extreme conditions in which the conflict with the Mapuches is being managed, I wonder about the day in which we will stop denying we have a long and deep conflict with our Indigenous population which obviously arises with the fact that one way or another, as a government, the agreement 169 has not been respected. I also wonder about how this action, against human rights and furthermore, these actions which break the endorsement to Children Rights, will be penalized by justice if penalized at all!

Entering a school and having war-like behaviours inside or around a school makes the lives of all those children and all that community sink in fear, it makes a whole community full of anger, and furthermore, not even in war events will police or navy be allowed to enter a school with unprotected children, just because soldiers have the morals of not affecting so much the future generations of a culture, unless the aim is genocide, soldiers would respect and ensure safety for children, but in the case of the Chilean police… I wonder, where’s their morals?

With this blog I would like to state my absolute indignation with the police officers, with the central and regional government of the Araucanía, I would like to state the strongest disapproval of their way to conduct the conflict and why not state it, they are going against human rights with the actions they are performing which by all means must be penalized and furthermore, I consider they should be sent to jail on the grounds that they stained the souls of a whole community, and hence, of the new generations of Temucuicui …. And to me, it is almost the same than killing the future for a child, which is also a felony, a bad action, a despicable and vicious crime.