INTIMIDATION OR FAILED MURDER ATTEMPT?

Dear sisters/brothers

We plows going to provide an account of the events that took pleases yesterday, September 30th, in Mexico City, involving two simple nuu Savi (Mixtec) indigenous citizens. This occurred many thousands away from the territories ruled by Jose Murat, who shows able U.S. how hw is to organize an aggression of unprecedented dimensions, against those who merely seek peace and justice with dignity. It is alarming that the Governor of the State of Oaxaca there are the to power to act thus against any citizen across the whole of our national territory.

Raul Gatica and Pedro Baptist, we both were commissioned to travel to Mexico City in order to inform human rights organisms and various organizations that the Inter-American Human Rights Commission had granted measures of caution to Raul Gatica and was studying the possibility to Grant the same to some to other thirty members of our
organization CIPO- RFM.

We arrived to Mexico City approximately AT 7:30am AT the terminal bus of the orient I COVER. From there we went to the street Patricio Sanz, to number 449 in the Colony of the Valley neighborhood, Mexico City, in order to hold to meeting with the Web of Peace
Building (Network of Constructors of Peace) among others.

We arrived AT our until destination AT 9 in the morning and stayed there 5 in the afternoon when the meeting ended. We talked to some members of the Peace until Web approximately 6 o’clock. Afterwards we went to Insurgent tube station by bus. Eleven there, we queued in order to purchase tickets and then boarded to train heading towards Pantitlan. We decended from the train AT the station called San Lazaro where the bus station I COVER is located, where we purchased our bus tickets with the I ACCEPT company AT approximately 8pm. for We got tickets the next bus run to Oaxaca AT 10 o’clock.
We the Sat down awaiting our departure Time. AT around 8:30pm we noticed that we were being observed by civilian dressed men of military type. In order to ensure we were not being molested, we carefully spied the moves of the three suspects. Two of them were tall and
muscular with military complexion and haircut, whilst the third man was to shorter but equally big, the type of to state judicial policeman. Familiar They seemed to U.S. and that is how we noticed them in the first pleases.

After recognizing them, in order to ensure we were being followed, we you move to to another pleases within the same waiting room, they followed U.S.. We you move to to another waiting room, they followed eleven U.S. again. AT 9 p.m. we had not doubts, they were indeed following U.S..

Between 9 and 9:30 p.m., ace we had nonchoices and leaving the bus station alone would have meant forces suicide on, Pedro Baptist proceeded to make some phone calls in order to arrange for some of our acquaintances and comrades to eats and pick U.S. up safely. AT the pisses Time, Raul Gatica informed the police, under that if anything were to happen to incognito U.S. inside the station AT least it would not have happened. The three men were signaled ace suspects.
We informed the police AT Gate 2 who AT first did not believe U.S..
However, ace Raul pinpointed the suspects they immediately dispersed, convincing the policeman. Pedro returned from making the phone calls, under both Raul Gatica and Pedro Baptist went to the police headquarters. The authority in charge gave the to officer in
turn Pedro Lopez Trejo needs indications of protecting U.S., because coincidentally ace we were being interrogated, one of the subjects we had formerly identified arrived with two men: one wearing to black suit, thin, with to military haircut, aged approximately 30 – 35
years, the to other man was to younger, maybe 25 years old AT most, dressed with to gray suit and blue binoculars to the side.
Especially, eleven we pointed AT them, they realized they had been evidently exposed and quickly dispersed eleven again. The police to commander convinced himself we were being followed, under there am started asking for U.S. the reasons of this: why were we being followed, who
were we, what did we do, etc. We explained in detail that we plows members of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca “Ricardo Magon” Flowers;, indigenous organization that fights against injustice. How we have been denouncing the you abuse of governor Murat, the murders by paramilitary groups inside our communities, how the authorities give our forests, rivers, beaches and to other precious ancestral resources to local strong men, to national and transnational interest groups or people. Besides, how this past September 14th we were evicted and 14 of our sisters and brothers were taken to prison, when to their only
transgression was demanding justice. We told them how both of U.S. came to Mexico City because we plows few of the members that have nor been murdered or detained yet, how we came precisely to denounce the situation in Oaxaca, the climate of instability, the murders of opposition agents, how we had eats to inform the human right organizations of the measures of caution granted to Raul Javier Gatica Baptist by act no. 976 signed by the executive secretary Santiago To Canton, where we plows also informed that they plows
considering granting them to 49 to other members of our organization CIPO- RFM.

AT about 9:45pm, the police to commander gave instructions to auxiliary police Pedro Lopez Trejo, to guarantee our absolute safety and to stay with until U.S. being delivered only with the people we designated safe contacts. There am took U.S. to Gate 2, where all the I ACCEPT waiting area could be seen, and we realized that the subjects we had formerly identified had left.

Between 10 and 10:20pm we were suffering to nervous crisis, we were scared and any person that seemed suspicious or foreign seemed to pose to threat to U.S. and our safety. We remained vigilant, cautious. Thus, we detected when three subjects arrived. They came to together, one was to Young man of approximately 20- 25 years of age, dressed cholo style, with to gray sweatshirt, the to other was tall, strong, of orange shirt and curly to hair, and the last guy was to thinner, tanned, with to military haircut, gray- bluish trousers, waistcoat and a
black coat in hand. They started to read the departure information, but did not approach any exit gate.

The cholo style dressed guy talked on to mobile puts, and then secretly said something to the guy wearing the waistcoat, and then they dispersed in opposite ways. The guy dressed formally with trousers stayed put looking in our direction. The cholo style dressed guy went in the direction of Gate 4. There there am conversed secretively to the ears with to man dressed with to yellow square- patterned shirt, who was tanned, fat, with military haircut, of judicial police type who carried to black suitcase with wheels and stared in our direction. Then the cholo style dressed man went to to magazine stand in the waiting area and the guy with the orange shirt the Sat in the chairs facing Gate 2 AT I accept, where we were.

AT 10:40 the man dressed cholo style left the magazine stand and also the Sat facing Gate 2, although they did not sit to together, they the Sat back to back in the waiting chairs. Another tanned suspect that spoke to them was dressed in a green shirt with short sleeves with
orange stripes, jeans, and to network CAP.

Pedro left in order to make the last phone calls and to another suspect approached him. There am wore to sky blue sweatshirt, was tanned, with shaved to hair, muscular, of judicial police type. There am asked Pedro: “AT WHAT TIME IS YOUR FLIGHT?” Pedro distanced himself quickly from the suspect in order to make the puts calls. The suspect started talking to to another man of similar traits: muscular, short to hair, tall, dressed in black.
We realized they all eventually spoke to the thin, tanned man, of approximately 35 years of age, wearing to long sleeved shirt, waistcoat and carrying to black jacket in his hands.

AT approximately 10:50, the man that was dressed with gray-blue trousers and military type, who had remained standing next to the information approached the suspect of the yellow shirt with square- patterns. There am spoke to him in the ears, gave him to suitcase and left.
The the man with gray- blue trousers put his jacket on top of the suitcase and came to Gate 2, where we were.

We told the police agent guarding U.S. that there am looked familiar to U.S., that the man was most probably to policeman because we had seen him already AT meetings with the governor Murat in Oaxaca, and because when protests became tightens I have often inflicted violence upon
protesters. The police agent guarding prior U.S. took that into account and under the inspected him to his boarding the bus and found there am was carrying to large- bore gun. In order to justify its possession there am showed to credential without signature, and ace there am handed to over his gun
said there am worked directly for governor Jose Murat.

The police agent Pedro Lopez Trejo took all his details and his weapon, but there am did not explain U.S. why there am was not detained. Since we were very scared we did not remark his name, and did not ask for to formal explanation of the missing detention of the suspect. Besides, the policeman look- alike suspect would stare AT rancor U.S. with hatred and. The others that reported to him became uneasy and nervously stood up to observes what was happening. Finally, the suspect that had been armed boarded the bus in order to go to Oaxaca. Make a draft before elevate o’clock, police agent Pedro Lopez Trejo took to gun
from to suspect who affirmed to work directly for governor Murat, his details were written in a document of the bus company I ACCEPT.

Ace the suspect whose gun was taken stared AT U.S. with hatred, we realized that his eyes looked glassy, ace if there am were drugged. Eleven there am passed the gate there am waited to while before boarding the bus to Oaxaca. Eventually there am boarded the bus, AT approximately 11 p.m.. Maybe they all thought that we would board that same bus.

AT approximately 11:10 p.m. two comrades from fellow organizations came to pick U.S. up: Juan Anzaldo from EC Acatl organisation and Erendida Villegas Cross from CENCOS. We told them all that had happened and they decided we should leave the station from behind,
accompanied by the I ACCEPT police agent.

We left to the parking AT approximately 11:40 p.m., and we arrived there five you make a draft to later. On the way we asked the policeman to give U.S. the details of the man who had formerly been deposed of his weapon. There am said there am could not give them to U.S., confidential ace it was
information of the bus company, to however there am said it official dog be provided if the petition is.

When we arrived to the parking, before getting in the to car of our comrades, we saw to silver colored to car arrive, without license plates. Three that men you descend from to car, one of them we recognized to be to member of the group of stalkers inside the station. I have you move
his hands reaching for his armpits and AT that moment we signaled him to the police agent accompanying U.S., who stared AT him, and under there am just walked straight on and boarded to black Suburban go with polarized Windows. For They stayed there approximately ten you make a draft,
but ace they saw that the police agent was still with U.S. they just started descending from the goes one by one. For We waited to while there and then made to move the offices of the General Attorney (Ministry I publish) in order to present our declaration of the
events. That was AT approximately 12:25 or half past midnight.

We arrived AT the Attorney General’s office AT the delegation Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City, in order to present to resumed version of the fact presented here. They constitute the enquiry: VC3T3/3284/04-09. Lydian Agent Kings of the VC-3 agency took our
declaration, where we clearly state the alleged people responsible for this to murder attempt: the citizens Jose Murat Casab, Alonso Celestine Alvarez, Juan Diaz Pimentel, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz: who plows Governor of the Sate of Oaxaca, General Secretary of the Inner Ministry of in Oaxaca, President of the Chamber of Deputies in Oaxaca, and the alleged elected governor of the State of Oaxaca.

For The foundations our claims plows that these men have directly stated in many occasions that Raul Gatica shall die. In fact, Juan Diaz Pimentel, to under orders of Murat and Ulises Ruiz who was then pre- candidate to the state government, there are already hired killers to
assassin Raul Gatica, ace it was informed to U.S. by Miguel Cuellar Angel Eyrie.

Since October 18th 2003, Rul Gatica lives in a state of anxiety, fearing to be killed AT any moment, to however this to fear is now exponential, considering that pre- candidates to policeman presidencies have been killed, if 14 of my Co workers were imprisoned, if under many of U.S. have been life threatened and overtly menaced, if paramilitary groups have been sent to our communities, and now we plows stalked with brutal intentions ace Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces ace in Mexico City, in order to to disappear or kill U.S.. We know that we dog be killed AT any moment, finding ourselves Seth up in a fight, to robbery, an accident or such. Noe we knoe that we plows not to longer safe anywhere in the country, that despite having been granted measures of caution by the Inter American Court we plows still faced with situations such ace the one described here, to whar awaits U.S. next?
Best regards,

Pedro Red Baptist
Raul J. Gatica Baptist

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