Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group

Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/15/politica/010n1pol

* “The lords of death must ask the nation and the victims for pardon,” points out the poet

By: Víctor Ballinas and Alonso Urrutia

The Poet Sicilia announced Sunday August 14th that the second week of September they will begin a caravan to the country’s south: “we remember that there, more than 17 years ago, in the Chiapas mountains, was established one of the highest and most profound examples of dignity that continues illuminating the country’s darkness. The faces and names denied to the Indian peoples appeared, which shook up the nation and reminded us of the profound roots of the injustice that are of long standing in Mexico".

Google translated from German:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.chiapas.eu

The campesinos remained prisoners more than five months in the prison of Playas de Catazajá, accused of the murder of an Agua Azul ejido member.

By Hermann Bellinghausen

Published: 24/07/2011

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

The last four of the “Bachajón Five” were liberated this Saturday. The campesinos, adherents of the Other Campaign from San Sebastián Bachajón ejido (Chilón Municipality), who remained prisoners more than five months in the Playas de Catazajá prison, accused of the murder of an ejido member from Agua Azul (Tumbalá), and of alleged crimes related tp protests at the Agua Azul crossing in the first week in February. Although the serious charges turned out to be false, the indigenous men remained incarcerated as “hostages” of the government, according to what the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) has been maintaining.

Ejido San Sebastian Bachajon, adherents to the Other Campaign, the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.

July 6, 2011

To human rights defenders, national and international.
To members of the Other Campaign, national and international
To members of the Movement for Justice in El Barrio in New York and its allies around the world.
To the people of Mexico and the world.
To public opinion.
To civil society in Mexico and the world.

Urgent Notice

We hereby advise all the comrades in the world in writing that yesterday, the July 6, 2011, following your many protests, they have borne fruit.

Thanks to each and everyone who made everything possible, the protests and demonstrations have given their first fruit, as yesterday the minor Mariano Demeza Silvano was released from his imprisonment at the Villa Crisol Center for Social Rehabilitation, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.

Although he is not completely free. The government of Juan Sabines Guerero freed him five months after he was abducted without committing any crime, a political prisoner whose only crime was speaking out to defend their land and autonomy.

We hope that the release of the other detainees is pending because there are still four other persons who remain wrongfully detained that the bad government has taken as bait for their neoliberal interests.