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: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:18:31 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "PRENSA NUEVO AMANECER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: From Geneva TRANSLATION BY LESLIE ANN LOPEZ FOR NUEVO AMANECER PRESS ************************************ >From Servicios Profesionales de Apoyo al Desarrollo Integral Indigena, A.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geneva, April 16, 1999 PRESS BULLETIN OUR WORD WAS BORN SO AS NOT TO ALLOW IMPUNITY --Testimonies from indigenous peoples and reality itself show the Mexican Government is lying. In the 55th session of the UN's commission on human rights,in their comment on Point 12, called "integration of the rights of women and the gender perspective," the Mexican government tried to disguise the persistent and systematic violations of human rights and basic freedoms, especially those which concern indigenous women and children. It should be pointed out that the generalized violence agains indigenous peoples, particularly in the militarized zones, affects women with sadistic violence. Mexican reality, documented by numerous national and international non-governmental organizations, challenges the official position of Mexico. The many women and children who have been detained, beated, tortured, raped and even killed by governmental branches like the police, army, judges, public ministries, and governors are an undisputible truth. Just as examples are: between April 1998 and April 1999, in Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Michoacan, among those affected by the violence, like the Indigenous and Popular Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" (CIPO-RFM), Proletariat Organization Emiliano Zapata (OPEZ), the autonomous municipalities of Chiapas and the National Purepecha Organization, cases have been documented in which at least 163 women and 81 children; this is without counting the 248 youth, 61 elderly people and the thousands of displaced. Despite the fact that they were declared innocent by the same authorities that condemned them, there has been no penal action whatsoever against the people who organized, authorized and carried out these acts, and far from being punished, they are rewarded with promotions. Moreover, the victims have not been recompensed for the physical and psychic damages sustained by the victims, through their property as well as their persons. If thse activities are referred to by the diplomatic corps at the UN when advances and concrete actions are discussed for the welfare of indigenous peoples and their rights, the indigenous women of the Mexican delegation of ONG's hereby tell them, No, thank you very much; we don't need nor do we want those rights which guarantee us death, offensive acts, toruture, rape and theft. We need peace and respect for our dignity as women and as indigenous people, and therefore we insist that a resolution be adopted that designates a special arbitor who will document the situation surrounding human rights and basic freedoms in Mexico, and in particular those relating to indigenous peoples. Finally, we are demanding the the governor of Chiapas, Roberto Albores Guillen, stop the generalized repression again all the organizations and indigenous peoples who are struggling so that their rights will be respected. We also ask for sensitivity on the part of the Governor of Oaxaca, Jose Murat Casab, so that he will stop the violenace against the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon," and release the Mixtec indigenous women: GEORGINA OLIVERA SIERRA, ROSARIO OLIVERA RIOS and DANIEL HERNANDEZ RUIZ, held in prison in Huajuapan de Leon, since the same authorities who are holding them recognize that the only reason for their imprisonment is that they have demanded the return of the land which belongs to them. We demand that the Mexican delegation stop pretending and lying to the international community on the human rights situation in the country, and that it joing the effort we are making as indigenous social organizations in order to define a new relation between the government and indigenous peoples. We remind it that it is not with declarations and speeches that the problems of indigenous peoples are solved, but through congruence between what is said outside of the country and what is done inside it; as long as this does not happen, it will just keep inventing a reality that doesn't exist except in its reports. by the indigenous women of the Mexican delegation of ONG's Margarita Gutierrez and Maria A. Gutierrez ___________________________________________________ NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-N.A.P.To know about us visit: http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm (spanish) ******************* In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107,this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest.**We encourage you to reproduce this information giving credit to source, translation and NAP.** General Director:Roger Maldonado-Mexico Director Europe: Darrin Wood-Spain Advisor and Special Correspondent:Guillermo Michel-Mexico. 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