Weekly Report - 17 February 2004

CHILE: Mapuche radicals blamed for forest fires

Southern Cone 18 February 2004 Modified: 18 February 2004 440 views

This has been a bad summer for forest fires in south-central Chile. Most have been attributed to human agency, and now the association of the timber industry is suggesting that many of them, in the eighth and ninth regions, may have been started deliberately by militant Mapuche groups.

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