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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:03:51 -0500
From: irlandesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EZLN communique, 1/20
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Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN
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Translated by irlandesa
CALL BY THE EZLN FOR INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
JANUARY 1999
TO MEXICAN MEN AND WOMEN WHO LIVE ABROAD:
TO SOLIDARITY COMMITTEES WITH THE ZAPATISTA STRUGGLE:
TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FIVE CONTINENTS:
BROTHERS AND SISTERS:
For this year of 1999, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has
launched a new initiative of dialogue and peace, calling for a
mobilization, in Mexico and in the world, for the recognition of the rights
of the Indian peoples and for an end to the war of extermination. One of
the most important elements of this mobilization is the holding of a
consultation with all Mexican men and women, wherever they might be, on the
indigenous law drawn up by the Commission of Concordance and Peace. This
consultation will be held on Sunday, March 21, 1999.
The Mexican government stubbornly continues to refuse to carry out the
accords which they signed in recognition of indigenous rights, and it has
openly opted for the path of violence in order to resolve the conflict, as
demonstrated by the massacres at Acteal and El Bosque, perpetrated in the
last months.
In order to cover up their war of extermination, Ernesto Zedillo's
government has mounted a propaganda campaign abroad, in order to improve
its international image and to deceive the peoples, governments and
organizations which defend human rights, making them believe that there is
no war in the Mexican southeast, that the govenrment is willing to
dialogue, and that it is the EZLN who refuses to peacefully resolve the
conflict.
In the last few days, Zedillo personally instructed the entire diplomatic
corps of the Mexican government, charging them with carrying out this
publicity campaign in the United States and Canada, in the European
countries, in Asia, Africa and Oceana.
Millions of dollars and the entire Mexican Foreign Service will be used for
this.
Vast material and human resources with one sole objective: lying.
The Mexican government forgets that international civil society is
well-informed on what is really happening in the Mexican southeast.
It forgets that men, women, children and old ones from all over the world
already know the truth concerning the war in Chiapas, and that is why they
mobilize and demand its end.
It forgets that it is known on the five continents that the Mexican
government does not want to carry out the San Andres Accords, and that is
why they demand their fulfillment.
We do not have either money or career diplomats to counteract the
government campaign. We do not need them. The truth is there, and
everyone sees it and hears it.
Because of that, because we know that this publicity campaign to spread
lies will fail, today we call for the...
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIAN
PEOPLES AND FOR AN END TO THE WAR OF EXTERMINATION
We call on all Mexican men and women, over the age of twelve, who live
abroad, to organize themselves and to participate in the Consultation for
the Recognition of the Rights of the Indian Peoples and for an End to the
War of Extermination, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1999.
We call on the political and social organizations, that are fighting for
the right to vote abroad, to support and promote the consultation in all
the countries where they have organizational work.
We call on men and women of all nationalities, and on Mexican men and women
who live in the countries of Latin America, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa
and in Oceana, to come to agreement on the organization and carrying out of
the consultation. To, together, in each nation, organize the publicity,
the installation of polling booths and the counting of the opinions.
We make a special call to the Mexican community living in the United States
of America to participate in the Consultation for the Recognition of the
Rights of the Indian Peoples and for an End to the War of Extermination,
promoting and publicizing the consultation, installing voting booths and
giving their opinions on Sunday, March 21, 1999.
The Mexican brothers and sisters who are living and working in the American
Union, many of whom are indigenous like us, did not abandon their lands,
their history, their families, their country, for pleasure. They did so
because of the lack of democracy, liberty and justice in Mexico, because
they felt obliged to seek other lands where they could obtain what was
necessary in order to live with dignity.
For this, we call on the entire raza, on the chicanos, on the
Mexican-Americans, on the bloods, on the batos, on the groups, to organize
themselves for the consultation and to register at the NATIONAL COMMISSION
FOR DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO-USA (whose offices are in the American Union) or at
the CONTACT OFFICE FOR THE CONSULTATION (Office in Mexico. Telephone and
Fax: (967) 8-10-13 and (967) 8-21-59. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
All Mexican men and women who want to participate in any country in the
world can register at this office in Mexico.
For this we call on all the men, women, children and old ones on the entire
planet to form their promotion and publicity brigades for the consultation
and to register them at the Contact Office for the Consultation.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE FIVE CONTINENTS:
The international community has been sensitive to the just demands of the
Indian peoples of Mexico, it has seen with horror the war which the Mexican
government is making against the first inhabitants these lands, it has
mobilized in order to demonstrate its repudiation of the killings, in order
to demand respect for human rights, and to demand a just and dignified
peace for Mexico.
In response to these mobilizations, the EZLN remains determined to seek a
peaceful solution to the armed conflict which exists in Mexico and to
continue with its peace initiatives.
But not just in Mexico, the excluded are suffering persecution,
imprisonment and death on all the five continents. The power of money has
decreed that the abandoned ones of forever disturb them, and that they
should be eliminated. They are trying to push millions of human beings
aside and to exclude them from all wellbeing, from the future.
For that...
In order to stop the war of extermination.
In order to achieve the recognition of Indigenous Rights of Mexico.
In order to stop the persecution which the excluded have been subjected to.
In order to demand respect for differences.
In order to demand a world where all worlds fit.
We call for an...
INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR THE EXCLUDED OF THE WORLD.
In North, Central and South America, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in
Oceana, the excluded have their own names and histories, their struggles,
their desires.
On the five continents, resistance is the arm of defense which the excluded
raise in order not to disappear. Their struggle, ours, is for humanity.
We call on EVERYONE TO ORGANIZE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES, PROVINCES,
CITIES AND VILLAGES, MOBILIZATIONS FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE EXCLUDED, AND
TO CARRY OUT PIVOTAL ACTS ON MARCH 21, 1999.
DEMOCRACY!
LIBERTY!
JUSTICE!
>From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee -
General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Mexico, January of 1999
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