Boasts some of the most stunning natural being in chile. The region has been called the chilean switzerland not just for the mountains but also because of the 22000 swiss immigrants who arrived here in the late 19th century. In. February is harvest season in chile. David looks in august brought a harald run son to rosa a farm covering some 60 hectares of land. The 2 men are proud of the property and of what their forefathers built top. But the land they call home is also being claimed by their neighbors members of them up to change. Some of the Indigenous People work on the looks in this field this farm hands during the harvest get paid by quantity im not very much. Each other im approaching insist the land belongs to them and not the man of swiss descent. He either has the sin with the law on. The weve always had good relations with our neighbors lets stick with it or that your family have been living in this region since 1000 know it more than 100 years. It notes and one that i know that we do yes and thats it you behold that we build up a sound relationship and i wouldnt i had school. Thats it and thats how ive known it since i was a boy like this and thats why its so difficult for us to understand our could come to this so we have to stay and you saw us often get on as. Well king on the farm has become dangerous since 2009 santa rosa has been subjected to repeated attacks led sayas size the still must sometimes its a fire. This is all sometimes theyve got bits of veyron in the fields to wreck the machine its going to be my fear that double game lead to sabotage has caused huge economic damage to the family theyre now fear for their livelihoods. To look cygnus used to have this you know 120 dairy cows. Today the cash heads are empty. The brothers had to sell all their cattle after an arson attack in 2015 that left the dairy in ruins. Them and i bet 3 putt on just the start of it if you have a business and its destroyed and you have nothing left all you have are bank debts. You have to start all over again and say what am i going to do now that they leave my parents are still alive when my father refuses to sell so thats how things are going to stay and fight the in such a lively. But theyre looking as a very much on the back foot their parents have already moved away from the farm out of fear of further attacks. Neither evolved nor how old feel it safe to move in. They vultures us damage from the most recent attack. Of all and they fired shots in this direction this all. Descendants also had canisters of gasoline with them with the intention of burning their hands to the ground. Lead to the bus comes from the regional capital to local legend. Once a week the truck our family go shopping in a city for items there are unable to produce back home on a farm. The truck culture among them a preacher families fighting to have the land returned to them. As the oldest son one bears responsibility for the family. Hes 26 and is a geology student the dispute between a truck councilman looks in as has been going on for almost 20 years 1st it was over water rights and then. One studies limit the amount of time he has to work on the farm his family is extremely poor and the 10 hectares of land hell too little to really survive on they make and sell their own handicraft a little extra money to fight over the land is a fight for their future and 1. 00 conducted with little massey. A little bit of. This land belongs to our ancestors. So really its ours by right and. Thats what i am against threatening other families and resorting to violence. But the whole need. A lot of my disapprove of that which. I see. But destroying the machinery that is wrecking our land i mean. This is a reaction to state violence. Never and i meant it but. Iran kony is the bread basket of chile thanks also to the settlers. In the 19th century they were invited to come by the government germans italians french and 22000. 00 swiss it turned wild pastures into arable land. The look singers were among the 1st settlers to arrive. Today the family owned a number of farms and regional considerable wealth. A Family Gatherings in particular its clear that the former immigrants have grown and to a closely knit clan. Let me catch. That the Younger Generation tend to converse in spanish while their older relatives speak reasonable german although they have lost the swiss dialect except for the odd word or phrase but they still feel an affiliation to the old country during the gathering they share old family photos documenting the ancestors arrival in the new world. This was the familys very fast house here which they built themselves. The ship that brought the 1st looks aghast to chile on a month long voyage. The contract with the chilean government granting 14 hectares of land to each cetera. And the founding patriarch sebastian of the left with the. It was family a few years to escape poverty. The family originally came from and in the canton a glamorous and soon thriving enterprise in chile they bought additional land and the 2nd generation and moved to the area around to call. Her sister just heard this is the 1st plot crossed my grandfather bought it out im looking out. On the looks thing a brothers then bought up more land 1300. 00 hectares and it itself with this the court of law that says the wives would complain that all the money was spent on new land instead of the houses in the land and that i could see a ses. As a look cygnus and i have a set of families became wealthy to not put became poor now theyre demanding the return of the land that was taken from the land of the settlers have been farming for the last 140 years. Proud of the history of course for all so we didnt get anything for free. And so if anyone is responsible for whats happening now its the state says yes but it was the state that colonized the area. Resettle 2 small plots of land while the rest was auctioned off. Just by. Them. But now the look cygnus find themselves at the heart of the conflict for jorge on terrace a conflict that turned deadly and 2013 his parents were the victims of an attack in the very house where the family has gathered today imagines he cool was recorded by police. Now. Under. Her breath. Let her. Know you know. You know im proud of our own no no you know i dont know. How i really am. I know hed. Be going to you know i arrived at the house a little later if theyre coming along the way then i could already see that it was on fire it started in the kitchen with i think i only just missed the attack for what but what implement long can think when time allows him to. On the year i went looking for my mom and. She called me a few minutes earlier that. We spent the whole night searching for her. The next morning we found out that 2 bodies had been discovered in the house. It had already burned to the ground. Look at that and contrary to what we had hoped. They turned out to be the remains of my parents were put on and like i said in the. 3 census brothers have since rebuilt the house but nobody lives there now the family use it to host gatherings its also a signal to the perpetrators. Where there are many where you can come and burn everything down but i know you can kill us but she will never achieve your goal. For could be you after the death of the work. Bill for it is arrested 3 not putting in connection with the attack. One of them was has a truck car the father of one trucker in the initial trial he was acquitted but after the government launched an appeal he was sentenced to 18 years in jail jose fled before he could be imprisoned. As a son c. S. The father is the victim of political machinations. And i meant to say listen whatever. 9 people in the indicted but if they all of them people who are potential leaders for others they have the knowledge and ability to make successful land claims against the state i mean i think also looking at them in. But with on at the show with the land in question is controlled by the settlers and the look singers are a prominent example on the look and thats why they wanted these people in jail for the fun of it they were with the people they blamed for the murder of the couple where the people fighting for the rights of the mob put you know that although. Their father jose was indeed one of the leading figures in the land dispute for decades had been at odds with jorge looks enough. But also true is that the evidence presented by the police in the 1st trial was rejected on the grounds of suspected manipulation. In the eyes of hers as children the trial amounted to a conspiracy against the father. For the approach in general has a truck seen as a martyr in the fight for that peoples rights. As his defense lawyer has come to see the family as always on fort. Hood defending an approach it is hardly a lucrative assignment. People are. Following the verdict by the countrys highest court theres little public will take a can do for the chalk owls. Is only recourse is to appeal to the enter American Court for human rights where he sees far better prospects for his client meeting and. Say yeah i was going to try one of. The commissary the authorities he tells us he used what was called Anti Terrorism legislation introduced by the pinochet dictatorship. The laws imposed severe restrictions on Legal Defense and ortega says they constitute a clear violation of International Norms of a chemical signal ali and to get ready the antiterrorism legislation was used by pinochet to arrest protesters campaigning for social rights. And now this very same law is being applied in the conflict with them approaching your document the mark this is i mean. Theyre using the same law and the same criteria introduced by pinochet to take action against them or put a community of Law Community which. Was a bit off. But thats not all says the lawyer he accuses the authorities of ensuring a politically influenced verdict determined by pressure from the socalled settlers. Youre way younger look if indeed that you are yes with me at those times the descendants of the big landowners are represented at all levels of society so that in the courts the police and the administration. Really are they only see things from their viewpoint who have no chance against them. Could be let go and over here. The odds dont seem to be in the favor of the public or take it sees it as a fight against a judicial system that favors the rights of the ruling class. He said millionaires in a similar situation. Her husband restruck was also sentenced to 18 years in jail and is now likewise a fugitive. Her family is among those who have challenge jorge looks into. The 9 years they fought a conflict with him overnight and now ali says his living on a piece of land that used to be looking us. But he said once more. That you either cant come up with chicken looking at the other and thus i dont tell you there are still a lot of my pooch a families who have no land or People Struggle is not over yet and that is why the trial counsel found guilty or not a lot of its purely political and especially in the case of lewis because he tried to claim back the land of another look singer game i cant because its about us as a community we have the right to a life in dignity that the settlers should go back to their own countries were not there not from here but we all back up. He said is not seeking personal gain what he wants is to undo the historical injustice. Shes proud of him approach identity she dresses in traditional attire and roast sweet according to old customs. He said face her own share of suffering such as raising her children without a father to me and me for her violence is a legitimate means to resolve the conflict. Yes in this life if you want to drive the settlers away you have to hit it where it hurts and that she cannot make palatable forget it my people started burning down the crops and killing their cattle he said i love you well you know yet what of. The men i hear but dont forget that the violence began with the state against the math people it was the state that brought the centers here the state started the war with the pacification of our cornea and forcing us to live in small areas that we thought of breaking. Pacification as the need for mystic term used to describe that chapter in history for them approaching it meant occupation and subjugation. The chalange state seized 90 percent of the semi nomads territory and confined them to reservations the loss of land also meant losing their way of life them approaching werent able to cope with that changed circumstances. The land given to them by the state was of poor quality and in contrast to the surplus they received no support. I once prosperous people the my push a sank into poverty. Yes the boredom of what if in fact what do the people do in this situation they tend to self defense and that strategy of self defense includes Political Violence as we call it and those that. Political violence and his own boycotts by boycotts we need actions directed against the center. Plays economic palla against industrial forestry and mining. Against all enterprises that exploit our resources but its our god also not what i think without the. Cloud. And centuries past the muppet you successfully defended themselves against the incas and the spanish conquistadores. Set sees herself in that same tradition. Of. Talking and press mixing out has this from a few kilometers away. Hes been planting young vines which is why hes drilling for water a Precious Resource for his house and for the quakes. Alfalfa his family also got it by police day and night. Hes been living with the threat from the portray for decades and is for many what their demands for more land. But it was in the border for the poverty among them up to change here and the countryside is clear to see it. You have to put yourself in their shoes when i think about it from the you but i cannot accept resorting divine words. When they burn down farms or entire harvests or the woman they murdered people broke in doing so they avenge injustice with injustice bentham all they can forgive the few living here for 3. He says the lay in the thin as a major reason for the violence its a low regulation the return of land to them and the states attempt at compensation for a historical debt but some say the law is ill conceived. Im going to your people about it but the law encourages violence. Infant its supports land purchases precisely when there is a conflict. Over me that is how conflicts have been consciously stirred up in recent years and the. Conflict the expro faithful in abels the process of land restitution to be accelerated. But me and its same time but i was to behave lawfully disadvantaged where it was a local but. Here another field has been raised by fire. By february when the summer comes to a close in a Southern Hemisphere the local landscape is parched. Fires occur regularly at this time of year one act of carelessness is enough to trigger spontaneous combustion gas and is another course. The wheat fields of hector or bone have fallen prey to fire on repeated occasions in this case the flame spread of no naaman pace the farmers family were able to stop in for an hour just short of their homes. Look saying i heard reports of the attack and has come to see the damage suffered by his fellow farmer and friend. And. Still it. Go is real this is the yield from an entire year bred as if we didnt need this you know getting a lawyer. Thats all thats left of the harvest. Their bones have had 8000. 00 attacks this year alone losing a total of 46. 00 hectares of wheat. Under the circumstances its difficult to understand why the family dont just give up. You know and to michael the name of still we have no other choice. Not the name of the day no its that or nothing the only goal of the year but we have nowhere else to go this land is all we have and to move somewhere else wed have to sell it. But nobody would buy it. As one of the families caught up in this conflict we we feel betrayed by the chilean state was at the morning i yelled put it through each evening for the state looked abroad to switzerland and germany france and italy to recruit people to work here and make the nation a great he said we need at the. Pentagon the finest you want. To mco the regions capital and financial center. The Central Market features many not preaching from the region who come here to sell their products. Its also where the various communities come together german settlers swiss settlers and indigenous microchip. If theres one thing may agree on its that the state has misled its people and ultimately is to blame for the conflict its never made a serious effort to harmonize relations between the different groups instead it is played them off against each other only to now leave them alone in the struggle. Looking is a far from the only victims of the violence. The attacks and now directed against various institutions of society. Ever takes us to multigrade not the local business association. Multi gremio wants to see peace for the region and peace here means the state taking tough for action. Lamb well the less the murder the assassination of the looks thing a mkhize in their home is the result of unrestrained violence the now even when you have your lintel absolute them in the state is incapable of punishing a group who are extremely well known that they like what you see from the police to the intelligence agencies and the judges it is incapable of issuing sentences that will put the perpetrators away once and for all. That any sense of the. Matter costs us shows us how rapidly the number of attacks has increased over the last year. The dispute over land she says poses a threat to society as a whole. She therefore supports the use of the anti terror law dating back to the time of the pinochet dictatorship. But that enough is enough now we have nothing to do with pinochet but the law can ensure security in the 21st century youre provides for information gathering that can be used to prevent radical groups from attacking their fellow citizens and it has. The authority to stand accused of using pinochets means to suppress them approaching and using the indigenous law to reboard finance their failed to get to the root of the problem. Torn between different political Interest Groups chile seems further away than ever from finding a solution. It looks to god takes us along to a womens group who wants to raise awareness nationwide for their problems from farm attacks to violence against children and having to live in constant fear. The Group Numbers 400 members this woman is a farmer with german roots she agrees to talk to us if we dont use her name shes used to the group being dismissed as right wing but for her its a personal issue. You missed it is my niche in that i want my children to grow up in peace i dont want them to have to move away that the sunnis this is their home it is much easier. Shes recorded all the attacks on the cal