However, as it has been said, this is far from being a reality in the Mapuche case. Since 1996 many members of different Mapuche communities have denounced illegitimate detentions and torture by the political as well as administrative authorities of the Chilean State, which have remained in the most complete impunity, where there are no penalised officials and all of this in a "democratic" state which has acted in full contempt of the norms of Public International Law and its own international obligations to which it has voluntarily subscribed.
Sin embargo, como ya se dijo, esto esta lejos de ser una realidad en el caso mapuche, a partir de 1996 numerosas personas miembros de distintas comunidades mapuche han denunciado apremios ilegítimos y tortura de parte de la autoridad, tanto policial como administrativa del Estado de Chile y que han ido quedando en la mas completa impunidad, en que no hay funcionarios sancionados y todo esto en un estado "democrático" que ha actuado con pleno desprecio a las normas del Derecho Internacional Público y sus propias obligaciones internacionales que voluntariamente a suscrito.