And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. Comments and volunteers are welcome. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:02:57 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "PRENSA NUEVO AMANECER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: STOP THE WAR IN CHIAPAS ORIGINAL RELEASED BY FOCA (FORMACION Y CAPACITACIONA.C. SAN CRISTOBAL,CHIAPAS. TRANSLATED BY LESLIE ANN LOPEZ FOR NUEVO AMANECER PRESS ********************************************************************* STOP THE WAR IN CHIAPAS We, a collection of different organizations within Mexican civil society, hereby make a matter of public knowledge our repudiation of and indignation regarding the new military-police offensive unleashed this month of June against communities which are civil support bases and civil society sympathizers of the EZLN. We denounce the following facts: June 1st. In El Limonar (between Chilon and Palenque) 300 soliders irrupted in that community to dissolve a zapatista protest of the deforestation of the region. They arrested two leaders of Xi'Nich, an indigenous organization. Indigenous people of the region denounced pressures and attacks against the communities located in the municipalities of Ocosingo and Chilon. In Tres Cruces, Chamula, members of the public security forces installed a roadblock, executing nighttime sorties into the community of Bautista Chico. June 2nd. In El Censo (in Canhada Taniperla, Ocosingo), three Public Security trucks surrounded and struck the home of Joaquin Hernandez Guzman. They violently arrested Miguel Hernandez Sanchez. Police and paramilitaries sacked the house and beat Mrs. Anita Sanchez Vallinas. Mr. Joaquin Hernandez Guzman is being persecuted and receiving death threats. June 3rd. In Betania (in Canhada La Soledad). Incursion by a military convoy and attacks against indigenous EZLN sympathizers. June 4th. In Nazareth (Region Estrella). More that a thousand soldiers, Public Security and Judicial police and migration agents invaded this community and set up camp. 300 indigenous EZLN sympathizers took refuge on land of a neighboring community. June 4th and 5th. In La Garrucha (Canhada de Patihuitz). A concentration of military and police troops in the military camp located at the edge of town, seat of the autonomous municipality Francisco Gomez. June 6th. In San Jose (Region Selva). 200 soldiers entered the town and executed sweeps for several hours before leaving. In Santa Lucia (Canhada Tojolobal). Soldiers invaded, installing a military camp. In Tila (Zona Norte). Public Security police assassinated Candido Arcos Torres, a zapatista sympathizers of the community of Jolnopa; indigenous people take over the municipal presidency and burn a Public Security truck. June 7th. In Francisco Villa. (Canhada Las Tazas). A military invasion of a zapatista community. In Pavorreal (Valles de Ocosingo, autonomous municipality of Francisco Gomez). A police invasion. In Chenalho (Region Altos). A military operation of 200 anti-narcotics soliders in three communities of that municipality. June 8th. During the burial of Candido Arcos, paramilitaries from the group Paz y Justicia and Public Security police shoot into the air and insult the group gathered there. June 9th. In La Trinidad (Canhada Las Tazas, Ocosingo). 700 soliders and Public Security police invade the community and install a military camp. In the Tzotzil-Tzeltal indigenous market, "Benito Juarez," in San Cristobal de las Casas, 60 members of citizen protection along with 40 other people attempt to oust a group of merchants, leaving several injured and 6 wounded. Those arrested during this offensive are to date: Jeronimo Hernandez Perez, Manuel Perez Constantino and Florentino Perez Tovilla, Miguel Hernandez Sanchez, Joaquin Hernadez Santiz, Jose Santiz Gomez. We demand that the new Secretary of Government, Diodoro Carrasco and the Substitute Governor of the Substitute Albores Guillen put a STOP to their repressive policy. As Mexican civil society we ask them what new arguments they have to justify these acts of terror, intimidation, repression and Human Rights violations against these indigenous communities. What Peaceful or Political resolution are they talking about, while repression increases at an alarming rate, and militarization increasingly closes in on the EZLN in open provocation? We ask for guarantees for the civil observation brigatds which are leaving today for the communities of Nazareth and La Trinidad. We urgently invite civil society throughout the country to join the observation brigades that we are carrying out; call 96783424 or 96782104. At the same time we call on them to mobilize with a variety of actions to repudiate this new governmental offensive. Alianza Civica, CEPAZ, COLEM, Coordinadora Regional de los Altos, Chiltak, Enlace Civil, FOCA, Comite DDHH Fray Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada, GAS, Jolom Mayaetik, JUNAX, Kinal Antzetik, La Red Todos los Derechos para Todos, New York Zapatistas, SADEC, Prensa Nuevo Amanecer-Mexico-USA-Europa. NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-PRENSA NUEVO AMANECER-N.A.P. To know us visit our web page in Spanish in Mexico at: http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> General Director: Roger Maldonado A Press in support of the work in defense of Human Rights *********************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher://eco.utexas.edu. Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
