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Chiapas: paramilitary violence continues
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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World War 4 Re****t - Dec 9, 2007
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Chiapas: paramilitary violence continues
Land conflicts between communities loyal to the Zapatista rebel
movement and the state's traditional political machine continue to
generate violence in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista Good Government
Junta (JBG) Corazn del Arcoiris de la Esperanza announced that on
Nov. 24, the community of Bolom Ajaw, Autonomous Municipality Olga
Isabel, was attacked by members of the OPDDIC paramilitary group. The
force of some 80 men armed with pistols, rifles, clubs and machetes
arrived when the community's men were working in the fields, with
only women, children and elders at home. They briefly held the
community hostage, beating one ill resident unconscious with clubs.
(La Jornada, Nov, 26)
Sebasti!n Espinoza Martnez, director of the "Paz y Justicia" peasant
organization?named as a paramilitary group by rights
obervers?threatened to organize roadblocks in Chiapas if Gov. Juan
Sabines does not address the organization's land claims. (Noticias
Palenque, Nov. 17)
Meanwhile, rights activists joined with members of the Emiliano
Zapata Campesino Organization (OCEZ) from Venustiano Carranza village
in a march on the state capital Tuxtla to protest the "restructuring
and reforming of paramilitary groups and White Guards" in the region.
(La Jornada, Nov. 20)
Mexico's Congressional Commission on Pacification (COCOPA), convened
ten years ago to broker peace with the Zapatista National Liberation
Army (EZLN), has announced that the long-moribund peace process must
be revived, and that the Commission will be opening an office in San
Cristbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. (Real Jovel, Nov. 20) COCOPA
president Martha Cecilia Daz Gordillo said the question of
constitutional reform must be re-opened, and that the issue of
indigenous rights represents an "outstanding debt" of the Mexican
state. (Proceso, Nov. 27)
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