Oaxaca: The Ongoing Extermination of San Juan Copala’s Autonomous Triquis

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Source: Upside Down World

Twelve people were kidnapped and disappeared in San Juan Copala on May 16, following the ambush of a caravan on April 27, 2010 in which two human rights activists were murdered by Unión de Bienestar de la Región Triqui (Ubisort) paramilitaries. The twelve disappeared are women and children. The kidnapping appeared to be a reprisal for the call to send a second, international and larger caravan to San Juan Copala, scheduled for June 8. At the close of Sunday May 16, late information was received that all the women and children had been freed. Nevertheless the denunciation of their disappearance was published to illustrate the contempt the state government and the State Commission for Human Rights hold for the Triquis.

Members of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala denounced the kidnapping of seven women and five boys and girls who were captured at gun point by a group of men belonging to Ubisort under the command of Rufino Juárez in the nearby community of La Sabana, the site of the ambush. About thirty-five women and children left the town of San Juan Copala and were threatened with execution in case they tried to return with food and medicine. San Juan Copala has been without electricity, food, medicines and school services for more than five months; it was due to extreme hardship that the April 27 caravan responded to a call for help. The women and children who escaped the kidnapping remain in the community of Yosoyuxi.

Members of the autonomous municipality hold Rufino Juárez responsible for the aggression. They add, based on the testimony of twenty-four women who escaped the attack, that two women of San Juan Copala were wounded, and that one of the children is only one year old.

The Autonomous Municipality gave the names of some of the persons of the community who were kidnapped: Felipa de Jesús Suárez, Martiniana Aguilera Allente, Marcelina Ramírez and Lorena Merino Martínez. With them, the little girls are Rosario Velasco Allente, Josefa Ramírez Bautista plus another small girl, additionally two children of four and one year of age respectively.


Read more: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2494-oaxaca-the-on-going-extermination-of-san-juan-copalas-autonomous-triquis

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1. Another casualty of our war on drugs. Hooahh. And some Imperialistic Nafta

for good measure.