And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:34:13 -0600 (CST) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiapas95-english) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: En;Background re Mexican Military Dissidents,Dec.21 > >This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. > > >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:29:05 -0800 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Commandante Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [HEADS UP INTEL! #4] [BACKGROUND] General Gallardo -- five > >General Gallardo >Amnesty International - News Release - AMR 41/40/98 >9 November 1998 >MEXICO > >News Service 218/98 >AI INDEX:AMR 41/40/98 > > >General Gallardo -- five years of unjust detention must come to an end > >On the fifth anniversary of the arrest of prisoner of conscience General >Jose' Francisco Gallardo, Amnesty International remains convinced that he is >still being persecuted for his views. "General Gallardo should be >immediately and unconditionally released," the organization said. > >General Gallardo's detention on 9 November 1993 is believed to be the >result of his proposal to create the post of human rights ombudsman within >the armed forces. > >"Military courts in Mexico do not constitute an independent and impartial >tribunal in cases of human rights violations, and this encourages impunity >and continued abuses," the organization added. > >As an example, Amnesty International points to an incident in El Charco, >Guerrero, in which 11 people were killed by the army. Five months have >passed, and there is still no indication that the the Military Prosecutor's >Office, Ministerio Pu'blico Militar, is carrying out a satisfactory >investigation. > >Amnesty International considers that all cases of possible violation of >human rights by military personnel, including that of the villagers at El >Charco, should fall under civilian jurisdiction. > >Background >In September, an Amnesty International delegation requested to visit >General Gallardo in the Military Camp Number 1 in Mexico City, the capital. >The delegation received no reply from the military authorities and was >turned away when it went to the military base on a normal visiting day.Two >weeks later the delegation was allowed to make the visit -- accompanied by >a representative of the Foreign Ministry, Secretari'a de Relaciones >Exteriores -- but only after media reports and political pressure had made >the military authorities reverse their decision. > >In a clear act of retaliation, immediately after the visit guards raided >General Gallardo's cell removing books and magazines that the delegation >had brought him. They also removed letters of support from Amnesty >International members and copies of the resolutions of the Inter-American >Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), recommending that he be released. > >Amnesty International also regrets the failure by the Mexican government to >attend the IACHR audience in October which reviewed progress in the >implementation of the Commission's recommendations for the protection of >human rights in Mexico. > >Source: Amnesty International, International Secretariat, 1 Easton Street, >WC1X 8DJ, London, United Kingdom > >Copyright notice: The copyright for this document rests with Amnesty >International. You may download and read it. You may not alter this >information, repost or sell it without permission. If you use this >document, you are encouraged to make a donation to Amnesty International to >support future research. Here you can find the address of your nearest AI >office > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Hell, maybe all that new Human Rights training at the SOA is causing >problems;) > >Regards All, >Null > > >NPC Information Associates >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >"Intelligence for the Underdog!" > >-- >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. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
