A-Infos (en) Mexico, Declaration & Call to Action from Oaxaca

Distributed by the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, Consejo Indígena 
Popular de Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón*, & the Solidarity Without Borders-New 
York Delegation ----- Felipe Calderón and Ulises Ruiz Ortiz have set in motion a 
hunt against APPO and Otra Campaña members. A clear operation of Plan Mexico.
To all the people of Oaxaca, Mexico and the World, ----- To men and women of 
good hearts, ----- To all honest media, ----- To all human rights organizations,
And to all people who suffered and who still suffer from repression, harassment, 
imprisonment, and from the loss of a loved one: ----- Almost another year of 
impunity for Oaxacan people while the 27 murders of 2006 remain unresolved.  The 
murderers still enjoy their freedom and benefit from the protection of the 
corrupt governments of Felipe Calderón and Ulises Ruiz Ortiz who want to get rid 
of those who claim their rights.


It is in this context that the Procurador General de la Republica or PGR
(Public Prosecutor) tries to charge the APPO with the murder of Bradley
Roland Will, an independent journalist of Indymedia from the United
States.  As videos clearly show, he was murdered by a group of militiamen
from Santa Lucia del Camino municipality.  These facts were confirmed by
international experts from the independent organization Doctors for Human
Rights.


In 2007, Will?s family was informed of the lack of seriousness in the PGR
investigation and therefore asked Doctors for Human Rights to handle
Brad?s case.  In March 2008, they investigated where Brad was murdered to
find out that the bullet that killed him came from a great distance,
proving wrong the hypothesis that a member of the APPO was responsible for
this murder. The report of this investigation was sent to the PGR but as
always occurs when proofs do not serve their interests, they rejected it.


On the contrary, they are presently conducting the 274/2008 investigation
asking for the detention of 4 people.  For now, these people cannot be
held responsible because of a lack of evidence. However, a lack of rule of
law and a reckless bad faith from the State put them in a vulnerable
position.  Actually, they can be placed under arrest anytime while the
State continues its slander against the Oaxacan social movement by
associating it with this murder.


As it did in the past with many members and sympathizers of the APPO, the
PGR is now distorting the real facts with a clear tendency to criminalize
social protest by accusing innocent people who were involved in the
Oaxacan social movement, such as Miguel Cruz Moreno, member of the Popular
Indigenous Council of Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magon CIPO-RFM, councilor of
the APPO, who voluntarily claimed to be a direct witness of Brad?s murder
to make sure that it won?t remain unpunished and who were always available
when the PGR required him; and the case of Edgar Santiago Navarro, who
never came on the scene of crime but who is a student activist in
Chapingo; moreover, these two persons are adherents to the Other Campaign
and to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.

This is an additional proof that Mexican State is criminalizing social
protest and persecuting social organizations that refuse to play the
Government's dirty game.

APPO

All Power to the People!


Please send emails and calls of solidarity and support to the people of
Oaxaca and rejection of the government repression to the following:
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