[Peace-discuss] Fw: OAXACA: No to Impunity! End the Assassinations, Disappearances andIntimidation!

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> Oaxaca, Mexico
> Two Activists Killed in Paramilitary Ambush
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> No to Impunity! End the Assassinations, Disappearances and Intimidation!
>
> TML expresses its outrage at the assassination of Beatriz Cariño 
> Trujillo,
> coordinator of the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) and
> member of the Center for Community Support Working Together (CACTUS), and
> Tyri Antero Jaakkola, a Finnish human rights observer, in Mexico on April
> 27. They were shot to death by UBISORT, a paramilitary group with strong
> links to the state government, during an ambush of the Observation and
> Solidarity Caravan to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala.
> Beatriz and Tyri were participating in the caravan along with other
> members of REMA and CACTUS, members of Oaxacan Voices Building Autonomy
> and Liberty (VOCAL) and several international human rights observers from
> Italy, Belgium and Germany. The caravan was organized by VOCAL and the
> Popular Assembly of Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). Several people were also
> injured during the ambush of the caravan, while some were able to escape
> while the paramilitary soldiers were reloading their AK-47s. The
> paramilitary soldiers also shot on an ambulance that appeared at the scene
> and prevented it from helping the injured people, while they forced others
> into the forest and subjected them to interrogations and death threats
> before abandoning them on the road. It took several days before some of
> those who were taken away by the UBISORT could make their way home,
> causing great anxiety as they were counted amongst the disappeared.
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> Mexico City, April 30, 2010: "Stop the harrassment of the autonomous
> municipality of San Juan Copala."
>
> The caravan was heading to the municipality of San Juan Copala in the
> region of Triqui to provide aid to the community which has been subjected
> to a paramilitary blockade and forced into isolation since declaring its
> autonomy. The encirclement of the autonomous Triqui community is part of
> the state repression of the struggles of the people to take control of
> their own destiny, with the paramilitary UBISORT, led by Rufine Juarez
> Hernandez, enjoying the full sanction of the state government. Due to the
> paramilitary blockade, the children in the municipality are not able to go
> to school, the community is without electricity, drinking water, and
> medical services and it is facing food shortages as shipments from outside
> are blocked. The April 27 caravan was attempting to break this
> encirclement and deliver supplies to the people. After the announcement of
> the caravan, the head of UBISORT, Rufine Hernandez Juarez had declared
> that he would prevent the passage of the caravan at any cost, but state
> officials did nothing to avert the assault on the caravan.
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> These aggressive assaults, including assassination, on the people fighting
> for the defence of human rights and sovereignty are part of the dirty-war
> tactics that have been institutionalized throughout Mexico. REMA has
> issued a press release placing full responsibility for the attack on all
> levels of government, including the notorious Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz
> Ortiz and President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa. VOCAL issued a statement on
> April 30 warning that UBISORT is planning to conduct further attacks
> against the people of the region. It also states: "This attack reveals the
> level of violence and impunity with which the ruling PRI party keeps the
> killer Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and local caciques in power, as well as the
> nature of the paramilitarism that sustains this party in the indigenous
> and campesino [peasant] communities in the state of Oaxaca." Since
> November 2009 alone, 19 people from San Juan Copala have been murdered by
> the paramilitary and these assassinations, as well as numerous vicious
> assaults on the people, have never been investigated, let alone the
> perpetrators being brought to justice. This has created a climate of
> complete impunity for groups like UBISORT, while the government attempts
> to disclaim responsibility for the acts of violence.
>
> The Canadian government must also be brought to account as an accomplice
> to the repression of the struggles of the peoples of Mexico, turning a
> blind eye to the dozens of Canadian mining companies which hoard the gold,
> silver and other natural resources of Mexico and refuse to submit to
> injunctions forbidding them to pursue their operations that are
> destructive to both the human and natural environment. These companies
> have their own paramilitary enforcers who use all means to intimidate,
> threaten and disappear those who struggle in defence of their rights and
> sovereignty, as in Chiapas, Cerro de San Pedro Potosi, Oaxaca, Guerrero,
> and several other Mexican states.
>
> TML sends its deepest sympathies to the family, friends and comrades of
> Beatriz Alberta Cariño Trujillo and Tyri Antero Jaakkola. We join with 
> all
> democratic and progressive organizations and forces of Mexico and the
> world to demand:
>
> 1. An inquiry into the planning, organization and perpetration of this
> murderous aggression and the judgement and punishment of all those
> responsible.
>
> 2. The immediate dismissal of Oaxaca state officials, including the
> Secretary of State, the State Prosecutor, and the Secretary of Public
> Security and the Protection of Citizens for failing to intervene promptly
> when the situation was brought to their attention, thus facilitating and
> providing impunity to UBISORT's murderous assault.
>
> End the Paramilitary Blockade Against the Autonomous Triqui Community!
> Stop the Violations of Human Rights in Oaxaca! No to Impunity!
> Long Live the Struggle of the Peoples in Defence of their Rights and
> Sovereignty!
>
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