[Politics] Opposition criticizes Siches' statements and minister clarifies that "we are aware of the dozens of victims of the conflict"

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"We had not seen a direct attack on civilians like we saw this week," the chief of staff said this morning. "It seems that the civilian victims were invisible," said her predecessor, Rodrigo Delgado.

"The event we are experiencing this week is of the utmost seriousness, we had not seen a direct attack on civilians like we saw this week," Minister Izkia Siches said this day, referring to the murder of Mapuche community member and forestry worker, Segundo Catril, who He was attacked when he went to work with his son and three other colleagues. Her words caused annoyance in the opposition, including her predecessor, Rodrigo Delgado, Sebastián Piñera's former Minister of the Interior.

"I believe that this in some way confirms that many times the civilian victims have been invisible to the coalition that now governs," Delgado told Emol, adding that "we must have a little more respect for the victims." Under that premise, he gave the example of July 2021, when a group of hooded men entered a forest estate: "At that moment, Ernesto Llaitul, who is the son of Héctor Llaitul, is considered dead, all the members of the current governing coalition In their social networks, the only thing they did was highlight and lambaste the death of Héctor Llaitul's son." In that line he added: "But nobody said a word that day about Ceferino González, who was mortally wounded, who was fighting for his life that same night, was hit by a bullet in that same assault. Nobody cared about Ceferino González Therefore, he added, "effectively for the ruling coalition, for those who in the past were parliamentarians, relevant opposition political actors, it seems that the civilian victims were invisible." In the face of criticism, the chief of staff wrote on her Twitter account that "in these months, as a government, we had not seen an attack on civilians like the one in Lumaco. Of course we have in mind the dozens of victims of the conflict.

 

 

Their stories They mandate us to find peace, justice, and a substantive solution. We have been working on that from day one." Sixth victim in 2022 According to a document shared by UDI deputies, Segundo Catril is the sixth civilian victim to die so far in 2022. In that joint statement -from parliamentarians Juan Manuel Fuenzalida, Henry Leal and Sergio Bobadilla- they mention that "with his statements, not only demonstrates his complete ignorance of what is happening, but also reveals a total indifference to the victims of rural violence"

Likewise, the head of the bench of the UDI deputies, Jorge Alessandri, requested the removal of Minister Siches. "Now that they have removed the veil from their eyes, now that they have seen the list of civilians, are they going to admit now that there is terrorism? President, unfortunately there is no reason in the constitutional accusation to remove someone from the ministership for being incompetent, for lack of preparation, because you don't have the information, but you do have the capacity". Although the deputies of Chile Vamos distanced themselves from the constitutional accusation against Izkia Siches that the parliamentarians of the Republican caucus will present, Alessandri alludes to this tool. And it is in this sense that the Republican deputy, member of the House Security Committee, Cristián Araya, assured that “Interior Minister Izkia Siches has no idea where she is standing. She is unaware of the serious situation affecting Arauco and La Araucanía. She personally gave you a long list of the victims and obviously you didn't read it. You are not up to the task and impeachment is the only way. Minister, resign, do it for Chile”.