Police Raid Government denies excuses about why it has refused to break the blockade paramilitary has sustained for several months.
by Kristin Bricker
Updated 3/8/2010: Women autonomous municipality gave a press conference today about the two young men wounded by bullets during the raid UBISORT paramilitary / police. Selena Ramírez López (17 years) received a bullet in the lung this serious. His sister, Adela (15 years) is also serious, the bullet wound that damaged his intestines and he was in his column. She no longer never walk in life.
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| Photo: Francisco Olvera / La Jornada |
According to the State Government, the target of the raid was to remove the body of Hernández Juárez Anastasio his home in San Juan Copala. The police removed the body of the man and then left San Juan Copala. However, the paramilitaries took the presence of the police to take the municipality of San Juan Copala. The City Hall is occupied by paramilitary UBISORT thirty armed with automatic assault rifles. "They have taken control of all the people" reported a source close to the autonomous authorities.
Meanwhile, the Mexican army has deployed soldiers to La Sabana, a nearby town which is controlled by the UBISORT. Until now the soldiers have not come to San Juan Copala.
triquis Two young women were injured when Indian paramilitary and police entered San Juan Copala. The women were part of a man who was blocking the entrance to the village, trying to prevent access by police and paramilitaries. The two women, aged between 15 and 18 were "seriously injured" when UBISORT paramilitaries opened fire to enter San Juan Copala. The women were evacuated and are being treated in a place that was not disclosed. Murder Mystery
autonomous authorities questioned the circumstances under which the attack occurred, said in a statement posted on its website: http://autonomiaencopala.wordpress.com. In the statement, the autonomous municipality authorities say Hernandez Juarez was actually killed in the city of Juxtlahuaca, which means that the body was planted in San Juan Copala, in order to justify the police raid.
Local media immediately repeated government claims, that Hernández Juárez, who was the brother of Rufino Juárez UBISORT leader and the "municipal officer" recognized by the government of San Juan Copala, was murdered at his home in San Juan Copala. Hernández Juárez was elected to the office of municipal staff, the UBISORT appointed him to that office last November.
Juarez's claim that Hernandez was killed in his home in San Juan Copala, reveals several questions about the veracity of information: How did Juárez Hernández San Juan Copala, a town UBISORT his organization has maintained successfully blocked with stones, logs, and gunmen from the month of January?, why Juárez Hernández came to San Juan Copala, a town whose inhabitants supported the autonomy of your municipality?, UBISORT says that the autonomous municipality is armed. Juárez Hernández Why go into a town whose only inhabitants are bitter enemies, who are armed in accordance with statements of your organization?
is true that the police recovered the body of Hernandez Juarez in his home in San Juan Copala. San Juan Copala has historically been an important cultural, political, economic, and spiritual center of the base region Triqui. San Juan Copala historically has had very few permanent residents. The leaders had homes in San Juan Copala, but only lived there when they were in public service. When the service concluded returned to their permanent homes in other communities. In addition, most residents of San Juan Copala (temporary and permanent) have left the area because of violence and paramilitary blockade. As a result, many have homes in Triqui San Juan Copala, who rarely or never inhabit. Such was the case of Hernández Juárez. As his body was recovered on the property, the report indicates that residents did not live there at the time of the murder.
Because of frequent gunfire from the paramilitary snipers in the hills surrounding San Juan Copala, the streets of people are deserted. No one leaves his home unless absolutely necessary and those that do often come under fire from the shooters that detected. The site allows relatively easy for someone in cahoots with the snipers, planting a body without anyone noticing, because residents spend most of their lives hidden in their homes, away from windows.
Regardless of how or where he died Hernández Juárez, the consequences of his murder are painfully obvious to the people of San Juan Copala. His village is occupied by heavily armed paramilitaries who were escorted by state police. To make matters worse, the attack occurs after seven months of locks held by paramilitaries, which the government has claimed to be unable to break, despite the claims of the autonomous municipality that residents may die of hunger if the blockade continues. The irony of the raid was not lost on the Regional Centre for Human Rights "Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño," he wrote in a press release:
"is incoherent and paradoxical that the security measures applied to the 'Caravan of Betty and Jiry 'humanitarian aid could enter [San Juan Copala] and allow food supplies, the State failed in its responsibility to help the Caravan to fulfill its mission. At that time, [the State] brought together an impressive operation that was headed by the Attorney General, Commissioner of State Security and the President of the Commission on Human Rights in Oaxaca, who prevented the passage of the caravan. They argued that the conditions did not allow safe entry to the extent that the police could not enter that territory. But in reality, only protected the armed group called UBISORT.
"Now it is absurd that the authorities have the ability to assemble an entire operation to carry out the first investigations of the murder and also may come in [San Juan Copala] and suppress the abyss of all people. When not originally listening, not acting to the demands of hundreds of residents of the autonomous municipality to solicit food, the reinstatement of basic services, treatment of patients under the false argument that they were unable to enter the area and that would not risk a its people. "The government's preferential treatment to the paramilitaries is unmistakable: in addition to the deployment of armed state police to protect the lock UBISORT when humanitarian convoy attempted to enter San Juan Copala in June, the government has failed to act when autonomous council members were under attack, presumably because the government was aligned with the paramilitaries. Just this past July 26, Maria Rosa Francisco disappeared when his house in San Juan Copala, was among the shooting. All the animals were killed and she is still missing, fearing that he is dead. Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño" publicly denounced the attack and called on supporters to contact the government, and fulfill the demand that an end to violence.
The reasons given by the Centre for Human Rights were taken with indifference by the government. However, as soon as the corpse of a paramilitary San Juan Copala, the government acted.
The autonomous municipality reports desperately needed money for medical treatment of wounded women and money to buy phone credit in order to communicate with the press and human rights organization.
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