Pararamilitaries Invade and Pillage Zapatista Land. We will defend our Mother Earth

by luna

Bases of the EZLN will defend themselves for better or worse.

pics: meeting of the zapatistas and the peoples of the world, Jan 2007.

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Bases of the EZLN will defend themselves for better or worse.

The zapatista council of good government of the Caracol of Resistance Toward a New Dawn ( caracol hacia un nuevo amanecer, La garrucha ) denounced yesterday the aggressions undergone on the part of paramilitaries coming from the Ejido Cuxulja, second section, and of the village of Gracias a Dios in the municipality of Ocosingo.

The members of the meeting of the council of good government (JBG), Javier Gomez Ruiz, Buda Sanchez Hernandez and Roberta Santiz Perez informed that those people have been causing problems for two years inside land retaken by the Zapatista Army of National Liberacion in 1994.

They told how from the 20th of February they got to chop down six hectares of mountain land which were prepared for small holdings around the homes of compañeros ezln support bases and where they had planted their coffee plants fields, and that 300 of their coffee bushes had been knocked down by them.

Also they knocked down 15 pine trees to saw planks and took the wood to their villages; they destroyed a field separation for cattle and they cut two rolls of barbed wire; from the cattle fields they removed the cattle property of the inhabitants of Rosario to put in theirs. They denounced that the provokers were accompanied by six armed persons.

In addition the JBG informed, that the aggressors are directed by the village committee of Jerusalem, in charge of which is Guadalupe Santiz Gómez, " because the plan of the bad federal and state governments is to keep up the confrontation against the zapatistas. The idea of the government is to prevent the work of the other campaign and the route of the commanders in the 32 states of the Mexican Republic ".

A solution between the parts has been looked for by the council of good government and the agrarian commissions of Francisco Go'mez r, "but they have never respected the portion we recovered in 1994. We have knowledge that this land is been seized by the bank. For us the recovered estates belong to our Autonomous territory ".

And they warned that good government councils of the five caracoles and the support bases of the EZLN will defend the lands recovered " for better or worse with our peoples, for we have already spilled blood to defend our mother earth. We say to the bad governments: federal, state and municipal, and to the leaders of the organizations who are provoking problems within our autonomous territories that, if serious confrontations come to happen, they will be held responsible.

"We, as zapatistas, are not provoking problems; we are respecting the other organizations, but if they do not respect us, we will not do it neither, and we must defend our rights as zapatistas."

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oficial note from the Zapatista Indygenous People's Autonomous Self government bellow ( in spanish, anyone up for translating please comment and send to email address provided, to repost or > include as an addition <

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A similar warning was issued same time of the year, an attack with a similar purpose, threaten, discourage, even starve the BAZs - EZLN Support Bases. http://www.ainfos.ca/06/jan/ainfos00287.html

The murderers of several peasants, non zapatista in viejo velasco ( survivor: " they wanted to kill us all )" in November came from Nueva Palestina. the OPDDIC paramilitaries issued a warning to the ezln, to the human rights org Frayba and to a small independent chiapas ecologist comunity NGO >/ Maderas de los Pueblo del Sureste/<, holding them responsible for the killings. A zapatista supported ( might or not be zapatista himself and his family ), promoter of education locally ( school teacher trainer ) and member of the same community was detained under dictatorship like anti terrorist laws for more than 3 months in an informal government safe house in Chiapas's capital tuxtla and two weeks ago dumped with the murder of all the people in Viejo Velasco and the attempted murder of his own family). this is what human rights mean for president calderon ( FECAL ) and the European Union (EU-UK). If you where to read spanish and clicked on http://www.frayba.org.mx/Boletines/2006/ 061115_primer_informe_viejovelasco.htm you'd notice from this document that the OPDDIC paramilitaries from Nueva Palestina, first cut the supply off the community days before the attack. the OPDDIC did the same to zapatista support base families in Moja.http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/jbg/647/ three days ago.

Meanwhile preparations for the next stage of the other campaign and the camps to Actively Defend Nature and our struggling surviving indygenous cultures both in the south east of chiapas and in the north west of Mexico in Baja California ( cucapa-colorado << href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1534308143462581524&q=cucapa">VIDEO english subtitles 17mins >>)are underway.

we are not in a hurry because we are going far. it is still a long way. love and rage.