LUIS LLANQUILLEF RENEQUEO, of France Libertés – Fondation Danielle Mitterrand, drew attention to the difficult situation in which the Mapuche indigenous people were living in Chile. At present, there were 500 Mapuches in Chilean prisons only for demanding the right to their ancestral lands. The detained Mapuches were suffering from ill-treatment and brutality, including torture. The Mapuche indigenous people were also struggling against the deforestation of their territories and the occupation of part of their ancestral lands. The Chilean Government had applied a law intended for the fight against terrorist organizations against the Mapuches. Mapuche organizations were being considered as terrorist organizations, and some of them had to operate undercover, as had been the case during the Chilean military dictatorship of Pinochet. 11 Apr 2005