Security & Strategic Review February 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)

CHILE | Anti-terrorism law applied to Mapuche. The Mapuche militant Miguel Ángel Tapia Huenulaf was charged under the anti-terrorism law on 14 February in a court in Temuco for his alleged involvement in the bombing of an public prosecution service office last December, and for possession of weapons, explosives and terrorist material. When he was arrested on 12 February at his home in Santiago, police seized a submachinegun with two clips, two grenades, ammunition, explosives and other bomb-making equipment. The previous day, Huenulaf had been charged separately in a court in Lautaro, for involvement in an armed raid and arson at a farm in the area on 12 January.