A-Infos (en) Spain, Seville, Obituary - Anarchist Rosa Pazos has been murdered

On the eleventh of July Rosa Pazos, sevillian anarchist and transexual activist, 
died after being stabbed. The Local Federation of Unions of the CNT-AIT in 
Seville and her comrades want to express what follows: ---- Rosa always said she 
would be murdered one day, but nobody took her seriously. Mournfully, facts have 
finally shown her to be right: we know from mass media that she was found dead 
at home by firemen, on the eleventh of July, and only afterwards, in the autopsy 
practised in the Anathomic-Forensic Institute, was revealed that the cause of 
her death had been a stabbing on her thorax. Due to this, a prosecution has 
begun and secret summary has been decreed.

Very few people accepted her the way she was throughout her life, not even
her family, and very few paid her attention, but far from unravelling she
always faced society's reject due to her triple condition of transexual,
anarchist and diseased.

Rosa has been a fighter all her life, she has fought for her right to be
recognized as the woman she was, for her right to a proper medical
treatment, for her right to be socially and professionally accepted, for
her freedom of speech, for her right to intimity, etcetera. A constant and
unequal fight that she has always faced from a libertarian perspective,
which has lead her to denounce systematically institutions and public
powers, whose bureaucracy, as usual, has turned into nothing these rights.

For many years, her t-shirts, her banners, her acts of protest, her
performances facing a jury, her denounces to the SAS, to the police and to
the courts, have been frequently dismissed, ridiculed (we must include
here the sadly transphobic report of EFE agency notifying her death), but
in all these cases appears the denounce of the hypocrisy of public powers,
which never look where they should.

Rosa was never affiliated to the CNT, her personality and circumstances
drove her to act individually and independently, but she nevertheless
cooperated restlessly with the union and she always showed solidarity in
all the struggles we have had: quietly, without drawing attention towards
her, almost anonymously, she has always supported epic struggles, such as
Tomares or Grúa Municipal strikes, and she has always done her bit
whenever she has been able to, in labour and social affairs.

 >From the Local Federation of Unions of the CNT-AIT in Seville we want to
make public our recognition to comrade Rosa Pazos, and we want as well to
express our deepest consternation for the news of her assassination. We
demand from the Police and from Judicial Institutions a steady
clarification of the facts and the imposition of the consequences that may
correspond to those who are responsible of her death.

Anarchist comrade Rosa, we will never forget you, nor your struggle. May
earth be mild to you.

CNT-Seville*
http://www.cnt.es/sevilla
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* An antiauthoritarian anticapitalist syndicate
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