With a monumental national flag displayed in front of one of the entrances to the Ministry of the Interior, a hundred members of various indigenous groups and communities held a rally yesterday to demand an end to the attacks against the communities of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). ).
In a letter that they delivered to the agency and which they read during the protest, members of the National Indigenous Congress, the Otomí community, the Popular Congress of Mexico City and the Iztapalapa Sexta Support Network, among others, urged that the federal government stops the attacks that put lives at serious risk
of the inhabitants of the Zapatista town 6 de Octubre, local autonomous government (GAL), in the municipality of Ocosingo.
On October 16, the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) reported that The siege on Zapatista autonomy is continuous
since on several occasions unknown people came to the community, carrying weapons of different calibers, intimidating the families of the snail IX of New Jerusalem.
The town is subjected to attacks and threats from the communal authorities and residents of Palestine under pressure from organized crime, who claim to have the support of the municipal authorities of Ocosingo and the government of Chiapas
.
The protesters shouted slogans such as Paramilitaries out of Chiapas
y Chiapas is not a barracks, the Army is out of it
. On the bars of the Ministry of the Interior they hung blankets and posters that said Break the pact. Stop the war against the Zapatista communities
.
Thirty years have passed since the Zapatista uprising and we reiterate that a counterinsurgency war has been maintained against our brothers of the EZLN
claimed Diego García, member of the Metropolitan Anticapitalist Coordination.
Solidarity organizations called on groups and people to join the resistance action and demonstrate against the siege of children, women, young people, men and the elderly of the Zapatista communities. They reported that the threats also consist of burning houses, theft of belongings, crops and animals, attempts to evict and threat of rape to the women who occupy and work those lands
for more than 30 years.
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