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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 00:53:39
From: IRSP <irsp-AT-netwizards.net>
Subject: M-NEWS: CHILE: POLITICAL PRISONERS' STATEMENT


Dear Comrades, Brothers and Systers,

Here we try to translate the letter coming from the High Security Chilean
Prison. Unfortunately our best english literate is now in Rome, demostrating
with the Comunist Refoundation Party. So you must accept our ugly english!
Sorry!!!

Socialist regards,
Fraternally,
Rainbow Internationalist Comitee
--------------------------------------------------------------

							23rd October 1997
Dear Friends,

Today we are starting again an hunger strike. From 00:00 hrs of tomorrow,
we'll be starting to answer so to the manoeuvre of the Government.

Why?

We don't believe it's necessary to wonder the reasons and to realize
greatest analysis. We can only add that everybody knows that the government
has permanently being in a condition of repressive offensive of annihilation
of the political prisoners'revolutionary will: beatings, tranfsers, flogging
measures and any other way of going on with its (ndr: of the gov.)
experimentation.
We aren't guinea-pigs , we don't accept that only for having the Power, we
can allow them to realize these measures.

This Sturday 16 political prisoners were transfered, without any of the
"previous argumented reasons", from the High Security Prison (ndr: in the
capital of Santiago) to Colina (ndr: to 40 km from Santiago), and in front
of  the opposition of all the comrades of the prison (CAS), these comrades
were attacked and put in their cells with violence.
Till now they are still in this condition, cause as they have declared to
the executives, they "know that if they would be relesed from their cells,
more problems will be caused" and they will be considered "uncontrollable".
This transfer, it is said, is definitive, so we alltogether, as Political
Prisoners, have to fight using the only mean we have: the hunger strike.

Some people can think that is "too much to come to an hunger stirke", but
there's no any other way; something we could have done it would have been
not to permit the imprisonment in the cells or to close the cells ..., but
so at once  the antirebellion forces would have come, would have beated and
would have put us into the rigour cells .... and in this situation we would
have to start the hunger strike at the same. In conclusion, we only have
this option, but this has nothing related with our way to fight today for
the respect of our dignity, it's only related with the way and the situation
of the politics of annihilation of this government against the Political
Prisoners, as a part of the global politics of definitive destruction of the
Chilean People's dreams and hopes to change the reality.

Dear friend, the nearest. I believe that by the days will be passing, it
will be looking for solutions to this problem ... It only miss me to say
that this is a struggle for the dignity and that things can become harder;
the enemy, this model and its bootlickers know that they can put themselves
into and beat, but we too are sure, from the day we put ourseves from this
part of the country, from the day we put ourseves to fight for the conquest
of the smile and for the future for our People, that reasons abound in order
to raise the fist.

The most difficult will be in the streets, casue every gesture of support
has to multiply the wills, every objecive has to push the next one and it
may happen anything ... here I ask you to have the sufficient wisdom to find
the essence, to collect the best and to put apart what will not be helping
us along this long path.

Dear friend, you'll be asking to yourself, why I decided to say to you
...it's cause we need to be clear, we need many hands and not for us but for
the struggle.

We need the circulation of this reality, we need to unmask the real
intentions of the government, to receive solidarity, to wake up wills and
reasons.
... It may happens that comunications will become worst ... it may be that
it will be longer than we were thinking, it's for this reason that I ask you
to find the best and to develope it.


A giant hug, and as Serrat says:

Y bueno, pues, un d=EDa m=E1s
que se va colando de contrabando
y bueno, pues, adios ayer
y cada uno a lo que hay que hacer.
T=FA enciende el sol
T=FA ti=F1e el mar
T=FA descorre el velo
Que oscurece el cielo
Y t=FA ve a blanquear
la espuma y la nube
la nieve y la lana
y t=FA conmigo a cantar la ma=F1ana
que hay que empezar.
Un d=EDa m=E1s, tire p=92adelante
que empujan atr=E1s...

For the collective,
Margarita Reveco and Mar=EDa Angélica Medina

Affectionately best regards to you

Collective of the Feminine Political Prisoners of Chile
Santiago, Chile

North American Coordinator
Irish Republican Socialist Committees
2057 15th Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94114
irsp-AT-netwiz.net
http://irsm.pair.com/irsm/irscna/


   

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