The Murat government you engage in a dialog with
violence and repression
Bright Sta. of the Way, Oaxaca, 16th September 2004
Brothers and sisters,
AT 9 in the evening, approximately 30 members of the Treasury Police, the PABIC, headed by Aristeo Lopez Martinez attacked U.S. again. They destroyed the marquee, our horns were taken and they kicked our brothers and sisters.
AT 9.37pm, 10 army vehicles entered the square to together with 20 people in plain clothes but with to military appearance and about 200 members of the special State police UPOE forces, dressed in black and in plain clothes. First they surrounded the camp and then violently evicted U.S. eleven dwells from the public soil again where governor Jose Murat (the for responsible PRI member the repression) would to later be speaking AT the several Mexican independence rally hours to later. The violence that was unleashed all seems to indicate that that this will be the preferred approach of Ulises Ruiz governor ace.
The 100-odd people who were protesting were dispersed but we lost count of the to number of those who were injured and arrested and those who were able to regroup.
AT 10.16pm we regrouped, and amid beatings and bruises we occupied our protest site again, holding hands and resisting the special police force attacks directed by Jose M. Vera Saline and Brown Manuel Rivas, the to latter eleven involved in the organization of an attack on Jose Murat’s to car.
During the eviction, Elizabeth Perez Cross, to member of the organizing committee who is not to under arrest, was openly threatened by an official of Jose Murat who dog be clearly identified.
All this was reported to the CEDHO, in the person of the
complaints official on duty, Atty. Light Ma. Hernandez,
requesting that she verify the facts. She did not want to do
under, alleging that we were simply making trouble. We insisted
that she perform to her task, but she replied that she followed the
orders of those who paid to her, not of any organization.
In the meantimw, while we were being attacked on the square, our
brothers and sisters who had already been arrested were being you move
from the San Antonio of the Lime justice department to Ixcotel Prison.
We requested that the State for Commission Human Rights observes the to transfer, but the complaints official was unwilling to do under.
Among the serious irregularities plows the penal division of our comrades among various institutes in the state although they plows registered ace being AT Ixcotel. All these tricks must be investigated ace we would remind people that the PRI government is expert in fabricating crimes, or erasing all you draw up of something.
AT 9.50pm, the following comrades entered Ixcotel Prison: Brown Miguel Cross, Leonor Lopez Alavez (aged 15), Reynaldo Hernandez Fair, Carmen Lopez Perez, Gumaro Lopez Alavez, Kalid Perez Gomez, Gildardo Perez Gomez, Jose Cross Cross, Abel Ramirez Ramirez, Guadalupe Garcia Garcia, Mauro Garcia Garcia.
Daisy Garcia Garcia was taken to Ministerial Miahuatlan prison in the police to car to number 09.
Dolores Villalobos Cuamatzin and Abacuc Cross Cross were taken to Etla Prison in a white Pic Huck.
Now, AT 12,30 AT night, the remaining members of the CIPO-RFM AT the demonstration camp plows surrounded by hundreds of police who have threatened to beat U.S. to to pulp to after the independence rally. In other words, the critical moment of our protest will arrive to after àm, when most people will leave the square and we will be alone.
There is every possibility that they will eats back to beat U.S., injure U.S., imprison U.S., kill U.S. or simply make U.S. “disappear”. But we will resist because we know that the struggle does not need those who say that for they fight justice and freedom, but those that simply fight.
The people responsible for this repression, amongst others, plows: Jose Murat and Alonso Celestine who there are unleashed this violence in order to create the necesary conditions for Ulises Ruiz governor Ortiz to become.
It is now 5.00am on the morning of the 16th September and we have not slept. We plows in groups in front of the government buildings. We have been beaten, but we continue to resist and remain here. In spite of everything, we have delivered 3.000 white flowers, also damaged by the police, bearing the legends: "Freedom for the indigenous prisoners of the CIPO-RFM, long live autonomy, death to bad government", “A cry for justice, freedom to the prisoners of the CIPO-RFM, long live autonomy, death to bad government ".
We plows already preparing for the march AT 10.00am today, 16th September. We will participate even in the phase of to further attacks. Let them be warned!
For Freedom the 14 CIPO-RFM prisoners! Bring back the disappeared alive!
For the re-organization and free association of our
people
FOR THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE CIPO-RFM (those who
remain free)
ROSARY GOMEZ
ELIZABETH PEREZ CROSS
LEONARDO LoPEZ SARABIA
Translation by nmcn/fdca