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Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Oaxaca Governor launch man-hunt against members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca and Other Campaign
Date Posted: 11, 8, 2008
Keywords: Bradley Roland Will APPO Other Campaign Otra Campaņa URO Calderon PGR
Languages: English
Keywords: Bradley Roland Will APPO Other Campaign Otra Campaņa URO Calderon PGR
Languages: English
Categories: Alerts, News, Politics
Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, August 8, 2008
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Oaxaca Governor launch man-hunt against members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca and Other Campaign.
To the peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico, and the World
To all men and women of good hearts
To all honest media
To all Human Rights organizations
To all who suffer under repression, harassment, incarceration and loss of a loved one:
Just a few months before resisting another year of impunity against the peoples of Oaxaca, as not a single case of the 27 murdered in 2006 has been solved and all those implicated still roam free under the protection of the bad government of Calderon and Ulises Ruiz, who in turn pretend to silence all those who defend their most basic human rights.
So it is that the Attourney General attempts to implicate members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in the murder of Bradley Roland Will, independent journalist from the United States, who was murdered by para-police forces from the Municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, as is clearly shown in video evidence and corroborated by an international investigation carried out by Physicians for Human Rights.
Since 2007, the Will family, unsatisfied by the absolute seriousness put forth by the Attourney General's Office, requested Doctors for Human Rights to take on the investigation of the murder of their son, Bradley R. Will, and in March of the same year the investigation took place. In their conclusions, Physicians for Human Rights found that there is a serious bias in the Attourney General's investigations, which overlooks almost completely the possibility that Bradley Will was killed by someone at close range (the argument used by the Attourney General's Office to implicate APPO members who were with Bradley at the time of his death). Physicians for Human Rights' report was handed to the Attourney General's Office as evidence, but has yet to be considered in the case as expected. Instead, arrest warrants have been issues under investigation 274/2008 against 4 members of APPO. This warrant has been denied so far due to a complete lack of evidence, but the lack of justice and poor record of transparency from state authorities makes us vulnerable to incarceration at any time under this pretext, and is part of a defamation campaign against the social movement as a whole.
The Attourney General's Office has distorted the truth as it has done so in the past against many other members and sympathizers of the APPO, with the clear tendency to criminalize social protest by blaming innocents for the violence they are victims of simply for being part of a social movement. This is particularly so in the case of Miguel Cruz Moreno, member of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" (CIPO-RFM), council of APPO, and voluntary witness in the investigations of the murder of Bradley Will. The same is true of Edgar Santiago Navarro, a student activist at the University of Chapingo who was never at the scene of the murder, but is a member, as is Miguel Cruz, of the Other Campaign and supporter of the Zapatista's Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, he is being targeted by simply being part of this social movement.
Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca.
All the power to the people.
Please send e-mails and letters, and make phone calls of support to the peoples of Oaxaca and calling for an end to the repression being carried out by the Mexican government to the following:
President of Mexico, FELIPE DE JESÚS CALDERÓN HINOJOSA
Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, México D. F., C.P. 11850
Tel: +521 (55) 27891100, Fax: +521 (55) 52772376
felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx
Juan Camilo Mouriño
Secretary of State,
Bucareli 99, 1er. piso, Col. Juárez, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México D.F., C.P. 06600
Fax: +521 (55) 5093 3414, Tel. +521 (55) 5093 3400
No e-mail address is provided in the government's directory. Please send a fax instead.
Lic. Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza,
Attourney General,
Av. Paseo de la Reforma #211-213 Col. Cuauhtémoc, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México, D.F., C.P. 06500
You can send e-mails from their online form at http://www.pgr.gob.mx/index.asp
Dr. José Luis Soberanes Fernández
President, National Commission of Human Rights,
Periférico Sur 3469, Col. San Jerónimo Lídice, México, D.F., C.P. 10200
Tel: 631 0040, 681 8125, Fax: 5681 8490
E-mail: correo@fmdh.cndh.org.mx , correo@cndh.gob.mx
Jaime Mario Pérez Jiménez
President, Oaxaca State Human Rights Commission,
Domicilio: Calle de los Derechos Humanos no. 210, Col. América, Oaxaca, Oax., C.P. 68050
Tel. and Fax: (951) 503 0220, 503 0221, 513 5185, 513 5191, 513 5197
E-mail: correo@cedhoax.org
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Oaxaca Governor launch man-hunt against members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca and Other Campaign.
To the peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico, and the World
To all men and women of good hearts
To all honest media
To all Human Rights organizations
To all who suffer under repression, harassment, incarceration and loss of a loved one:
Just a few months before resisting another year of impunity against the peoples of Oaxaca, as not a single case of the 27 murdered in 2006 has been solved and all those implicated still roam free under the protection of the bad government of Calderon and Ulises Ruiz, who in turn pretend to silence all those who defend their most basic human rights.
So it is that the Attourney General attempts to implicate members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in the murder of Bradley Roland Will, independent journalist from the United States, who was murdered by para-police forces from the Municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, as is clearly shown in video evidence and corroborated by an international investigation carried out by Physicians for Human Rights.
Since 2007, the Will family, unsatisfied by the absolute seriousness put forth by the Attourney General's Office, requested Doctors for Human Rights to take on the investigation of the murder of their son, Bradley R. Will, and in March of the same year the investigation took place. In their conclusions, Physicians for Human Rights found that there is a serious bias in the Attourney General's investigations, which overlooks almost completely the possibility that Bradley Will was killed by someone at close range (the argument used by the Attourney General's Office to implicate APPO members who were with Bradley at the time of his death). Physicians for Human Rights' report was handed to the Attourney General's Office as evidence, but has yet to be considered in the case as expected. Instead, arrest warrants have been issues under investigation 274/2008 against 4 members of APPO. This warrant has been denied so far due to a complete lack of evidence, but the lack of justice and poor record of transparency from state authorities makes us vulnerable to incarceration at any time under this pretext, and is part of a defamation campaign against the social movement as a whole.
The Attourney General's Office has distorted the truth as it has done so in the past against many other members and sympathizers of the APPO, with the clear tendency to criminalize social protest by blaming innocents for the violence they are victims of simply for being part of a social movement. This is particularly so in the case of Miguel Cruz Moreno, member of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" (CIPO-RFM), council of APPO, and voluntary witness in the investigations of the murder of Bradley Will. The same is true of Edgar Santiago Navarro, a student activist at the University of Chapingo who was never at the scene of the murder, but is a member, as is Miguel Cruz, of the Other Campaign and supporter of the Zapatista's Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, he is being targeted by simply being part of this social movement.
Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca.
All the power to the people.
Please send e-mails and letters, and make phone calls of support to the peoples of Oaxaca and calling for an end to the repression being carried out by the Mexican government to the following:
President of Mexico, FELIPE DE JESÚS CALDERÓN HINOJOSA
Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, México D. F., C.P. 11850
Tel: +521 (55) 27891100, Fax: +521 (55) 52772376
felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx
Juan Camilo Mouriño
Secretary of State,
Bucareli 99, 1er. piso, Col. Juárez, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México D.F., C.P. 06600
Fax: +521 (55) 5093 3414, Tel. +521 (55) 5093 3400
No e-mail address is provided in the government's directory. Please send a fax instead.
Lic. Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza,
Attourney General,
Av. Paseo de la Reforma #211-213 Col. Cuauhtémoc, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México, D.F., C.P. 06500
You can send e-mails from their online form at http://www.pgr.gob.mx/index.asp
Dr. José Luis Soberanes Fernández
President, National Commission of Human Rights,
Periférico Sur 3469, Col. San Jerónimo Lídice, México, D.F., C.P. 10200
Tel: 631 0040, 681 8125, Fax: 5681 8490
E-mail: correo@fmdh.cndh.org.mx , correo@cndh.gob.mx
Jaime Mario Pérez Jiménez
President, Oaxaca State Human Rights Commission,
Domicilio: Calle de los Derechos Humanos no. 210, Col. América, Oaxaca, Oax., C.P. 68050
Tel. and Fax: (951) 503 0220, 503 0221, 513 5185, 513 5191, 513 5197
E-mail: correo@cedhoax.org