Rapanui (Easter Island) Under Fire By Chilean Troops

[Swami]

Early this morning armed Chilean troops opened fire with rubber bullets on Rapanui civilians. The police started shooting and tear gassing as the Rapanui people gathered in solidarity.

Now there is blood on the streets.

Leviante Araki, the President of the Rapanui Parliament was shot twice in the region of his hip and rib cage and is being air lifted to hospital. A young man, Richard Tepano, was shot at short range in his right eye and is now in critical condition. Maori Pakarati was shot above his right eye and arm, where parts of a rubber bullet remain stuck. Zita Atan was shot in the head, Pia Vargas was shot in her right leg and Honu Tepano was shot in the shoulder.

http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/12/2010/rapanui-easter-island-under-fire-by-chilean-troops

http://picasaweb.google.com/DCRapaNui/Rapanui#

[shadowstalker]

However, the Rapanui are committed to this fight even although they have no funding and are unarmed. The Rapanui say that they are up against large well financed foreign and Chilean private interests who aim to privatize the island and its archaeological treasures,
And so another country lays waist to the PTB, all in the name of what a again? oh ya right treasures of the past , that they don't want folks to know about.