Adriana and Virginia OG Triqui indigenous people were murdered this Tuesday night in the center of the city of Oaxaca, reported their sister Emilia Ortiz García, human rights defender of the Triqui nation.
He explained that his relatives told him that two men on a motorcycle shot the two women at the stroke of midnight this Tuesday as soon as they got out of a taxi that took them to their home in the Madero neighborhood, behind the bus station. railway.
The activist demanded a prompt and expeditious investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca and noted that from this moment she rejects any attempt at impunity, as has happened with the case of her cousins Daniela and Virginia.
He pointed out that his sisters, aged 45 and 35, were dedicated to selling crafts in the Alameda de León, which had no relation to the problems faced by some groups in the region, “my family has promoted peace in the region, not “I understand why they have done this to us.”
Emelia Ortiz recently presented her book I want my cousins back and I want peace, in which she narrates the disappearance of her cousins Daniela and Virginia Ortiz Ramírez, events that occurred in the Mixtec region where this ethnic group lives on July 5, 2008 and which remains unpunished to this day.
