Massacre in Chiapas (Mexico):Six Women, Three Men,Two Children...

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BREAKING

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2339.html

Today, Monday, November 13, presumed paramilitaries committed a massacre in the Montes Azules jungle region of Chiapas, killing nine indigenous women and men and two children.

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The details of the massacre, in a very isolated area, far from urban and media centers, are still sketchy, but the warning signs that violence on this scale was brewing in the region have been known by state and federal officials all along. They were specifically warned by human rights organizations last July and August, but in lieu of taking positive action, their police and other agencies merely aggravated the problems since then.

The dead lived and worked in the Ejido Dr. Manuel Velasco Suarez II, known as Viejo Velasco Suárez, a farming community established in 1984 through an agreement with the Mexican government. They and their previous generations had lived in other parts of the Lacandon Jungle that, in 1972, had been declared a “nature preserve.” Then, as now, the ecological imprimatur turned out to have more to do with looting Mother Nature than protecting her: the creation of the Montes Azules biosphere served to grant the Mexican government monopoly control over exploitation of hardwoods and other natural resources. As part of the environmental show and simulation, 66 families of the Lacandon indigenous group – a population that today numbers in the hundreds, descendants of Maya peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula that had emigrated to Chiapas centuries ago – were declared sole stewards of more than 600,000 hectares of rainforest, but on the condition that they cede economic rights to the government over the land.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Bush's friend has made a vile decision in encouraging this massacre.

Paramilitaries are the ones who usually do the dirty work with which official government forces can't officially be involved, themselves. It's not unusual to see words like "immunity" floated around the paramilitaries.

Makes one very aware of ancient predictions of wars between the forces of light and darkness. It's a shame the darkness has all the observable power, isn't it?

This was NOT a noble act carried out by good people putting down disobedient poor people. It was impure, filthy murder.

Found another article discussing their knowledge about this coming right-wing blood revelry:

Impending Massacre in CHIAPAS Mexico
Saturday, October 14 2006 @ 09:32 AM PDT
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Chol de Tumbala, Oct 11--Tension is mounting in this community under siege, harassed by the constant sight and sound of low flying government planes and helicopters, and news of troops and paramilitaries gathering at the outskirts of town. The word is that the Mexican Army will invade any day now to forcibly remove the entire community.

Impending Massacre in Chiapas Mexico--Update
By Saskia Fischer | 10.12.2006

Chol de Tumbala, Oct 11--Tension is mounting in this community under siege, harassed by the constant sight and sound of low flying government planes and helicopters, and news of troops and paramilitaries gathering at the outskirts of town. The word is that the Mexican Army will invade any day now to forcibly remove the entire community.

While much attention has been focused on the struggle between poor communities and the state authorities in Oaxaca, the Mexican government continues to wage a low-intensity war against indigenous communities in the very fertile and resource-rich state of Chiapas.

This particular battle is taking place in the village of Chol de Tumbala , an indigenous community in Northern Chiapas. The village is part of the network of autonomous Zapatista municipalities in the state, this one named El Trabajo. The Chols are about to face eviction, for the second time, from the ancestral lands they have struggled over the past decade to get a legal claim to. The lands, which once were covered with dense jungle, and inhabited by the Chols, have over the past decades been deforested by vast cattle ranches, and their valuable timber sold on world markets.

Today the San Cristobal based human rights organization, the Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolome de las Casas (CDHFBLC), which monitors and promotes the human rights of poor people in the region, made a public appeal to the state government not to use force against the Zapatistas camped in Chol de Tumbala. They also revealed that when they voiced their concerns to officials over a week ago, they were told that the government was facing pressure from the president of the ranchers, Pedro Fons, to reclaim the land. They were assured that the police wanted to avoid a violent confrontation. However, given the recent history of violence against the villagers, the Center said that these assurances could not be taken for granted.
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http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061014093238721

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2. Why the hell was this moved to Editorials?

kick for justice.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I had the same question. Either it happened or it didn't.

There's absolutely no question whatsoever that it happened, and that people feared it would happen well before it did.

It IS absolutely important.