Below is an article published by Prensa Latina:

The five Mapuche villagers on hunger strike in Angol prison, in Chilean Araucanian promised to continue without feeding themselves and keep on fighting until they recover their lands and the freedom of their people.

From jail we will keep on struggling until the end to be heard and to have them give back all they had taken away, the prisoners stressed in a statement Prensa Latina had accessed today.

For 15 days Paulino Levipan, Daniel Levinao, Hector Ricardo Nahuelqueo, Rodrigo Montoya and the spokesman Eric Montoya stopped feeding, because they considered their legal causes did not have a fair process.

Two of them were recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for frustrated homicide against members of the Police.

We know that Mapuche struggle is being criminalized by the Chilean state. They chase us, we are condemned, they discriminate us in our own communities, the villagers said who stressed that neither imprisonment nor death will stop their struggle for freedom and the restoration of their ancestral lands.

Villagers also promised to keep their heads held high, in response to a fascist state that charges and represses them with defamation with their police, holding them in prison as criminals.

That's why we take this measure of pressure to be heard and to have our demands of justice as courts make political convictions influenced by government and business, the statement said.

According to them, governmental personalities and businessmen criticize adverse decisions of the judges when they pass high penalties to neutralize the Mapuche conflict.

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Santiago on Sunday in homage to the victims of the coup of September 11, 1973, which dismissed the government of President Salvador Allende.

Among their slogans, they claim for the freedom for Mapuche and fair juridical processes for the representatives of this indigenous people.