Mapuche killed during a police confrontation

Leaders of the Malleco Arauco Group said that the incident occurred on
Jorge Luchsinger's property. Police however, have not yet confirmed
this information.

TEMUCO.-  Leaders of the Arauco Malleco Group maintained today that a
young mapuche boy was killed during a confrontation with police at
Santa Margarita homestead. The property in the Ninth Region belongs to farmer Jorge Luchsinger.

The young man, Matías Valentín Catrileo Quezada, was studying
Agricultural Science at La Frontera University in Temuco.

The leaders indicated that the boy's body is located at La Roca school
in a rural area of Vilcún near Luschsinger's land. Police officials
however, have not yet confirmed this information.

Police have only confirmed that a group of twenty hooded individuals
attacked Luschsinger's ranch early this morning, burning 60 of the 150
bales of hay that were being stored there.

If verified, the incident represents the most severe case since the
death of Mapuche member Alez Lemún in November of 2003. Lemún was
killed during a confrontation at the Santa Elena homestead, in the town of
Ercilla.