> From: "NUEVO AMANECER PRESS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "NAP-E6"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 11:46:26 +0000 > Subject: (Eng) 43 MASSACRED IN CHENALHO > > > NUEVO AMANECER PRESS - EUROPA > Darrin Wood, Director. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ***************************** > > > Tuesday December 23 10:26 AM EST > > Mexico Paramilitaries Attack Chiapas Indians > > MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican paramilitaries staged a violent attack on > Indians in troubled Chiapas state, killing 43 people and injuring many > others, a local leader said on Tuesday. > > Manual Perez Vazquez, a local indigenous leader, told Reuters there were 43 > dead and many injured after the attack in Acteal, in the Chenalho > municipality, about 44 miles (70 km) northeast of San Cristobal de las Casas. > > Some reports said the Indians were supporters of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, > and were already refugees from paramilitary violence elsewhere in the region. > > The Zapatistas staged a violent uprising against the Mexican government in > southern Chiapas state on Jan. 1, 1994, when officially around 140 people > died. > > Chiapas state government officials confirmed the paramilitary attack, which > happened at midday Monday, but could not give exact numbers of dead or > injured. > > "This is the worst massacre that has happened in Chiapas since the armed > uprising of 1994," said Domingo Perez Palencia, president of the municipal > council in the rebel area of Chenalho. > > > ___________________________________________________ > NUEVO AMANECER PRESS- N.A.P. > _________________________________ > Non Profit organization translating and distributing information > in support of the work in defense of human rights. > General Director: Roger Maldonado-Mexico > Assistant Director: Susana Saravia Ugarte > Director Spain: Darrin Wood > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
