> >X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 6 02:21:26 2000 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: URGENT-BULLETIN SAYS "HUMAN SHIELD" PROTESTORS STILL IN > VIEQUES > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > source - www.viequeslibre.org > >THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE LIVE IMPACT AREA IN VIEQUES >PRESS RELEASE/URGENT MESSAGE May 5, 2000- > >CAMP MOUNT DAVID VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO >Contact: Carlos Zenon (Phone# 787-741-8315) > >Carlos Zenon, President of the Vieques Fishermen's Association and >leader of Camp Mount David in the live impact area in Vieques, >announced that there are still men and women in the live impact area >acting as human shields against any attempt to renew bombing in >Vieques. > >Zenon explained that "The strategy in Camp Mount David has always >been that we were not going to resist arrests with violence, but we >were not going to make it easy for the U.S. Navy and the federal >marshalls. We kept our promise. When the raid against the >demonstrators began, members of Camp Mount David and Camp Mapepe >(another of the civil disobedience camps) went deep inside the live >impact area and are in two secret camps whose location and existence >was never revealed." > >Zenon added that there is water and provisions in both secret camps >and that "the presence of these courageuos men and women in the live >impact area serves as an incentive to the people and to provide >continuity to our struggle and to stopping the bombings." The >Viequense fisherman added: "In fact, as long as there remains even >one person hiding in the live impact area, the federal marshals >themselves during their search would also be acting as human shields >against the bombings." > >Zenon was able to identify at least seven (7) people who are still in >the live impact area. From Camp David there are: (1) his son Pedro >Zenon, (2) his son Cacimar Zenon, and (3) Magaly Santos, and from >Camp Mapepe (4) Miguel Gonzalez, (5) Miguel Velazquez, (6) Carlos >Garcia, and (7) another Viequense youth. Zenon explained that there >might be more people hiding in the live impact area, and said that >"although one can expect almost anything from the U.S. Navy, the fact >is that as long as these demonstratos remain in the live impact area, >the Navy cannot resume bombing." > >Finally, Zenon stated: "As a father, and my wife as a mother, we >are concerned about what may happen to our sons in circumstances in >which they are alone and in subhuman and dangerous conditions. Yet >there are so many Viequense families who have suffered the atrocities >committed by the U.S. Navy here in Vieques for so long, that we are >willing to pay that price in order to contribute to putting an end to >the suffering of our people." >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= >nytrad-05.05.00-12:21:06-10541 > > ********** __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
