Urgent Action: Civil Society of Oaxaca emits humanitarian alert due to armed attack of the State against civilians
TO THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY
Today, June 19th, we have been
witnesses of the extremely violent actions of the Mexican State
repressing the teachers
and the organized civil society in resistance in different areas
of the State of Oaxaca including the Istmus of Tehuantepec,
Nochixtlán and the
city of Oaxaca.
As a result of the excessive use
of force, at least six persons have lost their lives and dozens
have been
injured and arrested. At this moment there is no information
about the whereabouts of the arrested persons neither there is
an exact total number of
injured and killed persons. Medical attention was not guaranteed
and civil society had to create points of emergency medical
attention to injured
persons without being able to cope with the demand.
There are happening particularly
violent actions in the city of Oaxaca tonight. We have witnessed
the arrival of a
large number of airplanes of the Federal Police and the
Gendarmerie in the city throughout the day as well as we witness
that the tension is
increasing every minute.
Previous events:
In the State of Oaxaca people live
in a context of generalized violence in which repression and
criminalization of the
social movement and particularly against the teachers who belong
to the Sección 22 aggravated in a particularly severe way linked
to their
fight against the implementation of the educational reform. By
today, organizations from civil society and Human Rights
organizations reported at
least 75 Human Rights defenders imprisoned as political
prisoners.
Within the events of
criminalization of the Oaxacan teacher´s union stand out the
following:
- May 2013, detention of five teachers in Oaxaca: Damián Gallardo Martínez, Lauro Atilano Grijalva Villalobos, Mario Olivera Osorio, Sara Altamirano Ramos and Leonel Manzano Sosa.
- In 2015, media campaigns of defamation and criminalization against the teachers increased permanently side by side with the process of dismantling of the IEEPO (State Institute of Public Education in Oaxaca) which took place in July leaving therefore thousands of teachers in a particular vulnerability due to not receiving payment for their work.
- October 2015: Detention of Juan Carlos Orozco Matus, Othón Nazariega Segura, Efraín Picazo Pérez and Roberto Abel Jiménez García and emisión of dozens of arrest warrants against members of the Sección 22.
- In April 2016, Aciel Sibaja Mendoza, financial secretary of the Sección 22 was arrested.
- In May 2016 Heriberto Magariño López, another leader of the Sección 22 was arrested.
- At last, June 11th Francisco Villalobos Ricardéz, leader of the Sección 22 was arrested and only hours afterwards June 12th Rubén Núñez Ginez, general secretary of the Sección 22 was arrested as well.
It is important to mention that
arrest warrants are issued against teachers of intermediate
authority, that means
against teachers who coordinate and drive the teacher´s
movement. This strategy is meant to disassemble the movement.
The same way diverse relators of
the United Nations made urgent calls to the Mexican authorities
expressing their
concerns about the violations of Human Rights reported in some
cases, in particular detentions without arrest warrant and
without investigation, the
use of torture during the posterior period of the arbitrary
detention and other violations of the guarantees of the arrested
persons[1].
The use of detentions, campaigns
of defamation and repression against the Sección 22 have the
clear aim to
lessen the teacher´s movement which plays historically an
important role in the social movement of Oaxaca. Dissembling the
teacher´s
movement impacts directly the work which all the persons and
organizations of Human Rights are realizing in the State of
Oaxaca and in Mexico.
We, the signing organizations,
request that organisms, which are represented by you, are on the
alert regarding this
particularly violent situation which exists right now and that
you join us in the following demands towards the federal
government as well as the
government of Oaxaca:
- Cease of the wrongful and disproportionate use of force and repression against the teachers and the civil society who make use of their legitimate right of expression and free protest.
- Immediate establishing of a round table for dialogue with the teachers of Oaxaca.
- Immediate medical attention for all injured persons result of the violent acts of the State.
- Cease of the criminalization of the teachers, cancelation of arrest warrants against members of the teacher´s union of Oaxaca and immediate liberation of all teachers which have been arrested in an arbitrary and illegal way.
- Punishment of all persons responsible for arbitrary detentions, torture and other violations of Human Rights against members of the teacher´s union of Oaxaca.
SINCERELY
Civil Society of Oaxaca1. Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas del Istmo en la Defensa de la Tierra y el Territorio.
2. Asamblea Popular del Pueblo Juchiteco APPJ.
3. Asesoría Integral y Litigio Estratégico a Pueblos Originarios, A.C. ASER-LITIGIO
4. Centrarte, A.C.
5. Centro Antonio de Montesinos A.C.
6. Centro Comunal de Salud y Tecnologías Integrales, A.C.
7. Centro de Acompañamiento a Migrantes Caminos, A.C.
8. Centro de Apoyo al Movimiento Popular Oaxaqueño, CAMPO, A.C.
9. Centro de Apoyo para la Educación y Creatividad Calpulli, A.C.
10. Centro de Atención Infantil Piña Palmera, A. C.
11. Centro de Atención para el Desarrollo, CODICE, A.C.
12. Centro de Derechos Humanos Tepeyac, A.C.
13. Centro de Derechos Indígenas Flor y Canto, A.C.
14. Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario Centéotl, A.C.,
15. Centro de Encuentros y Diálogos Interculturales,
A.C.16. Centro para los Derechos de la Mujer Naaxwiin, A.C.
17. Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño", A.C.
18. Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos de la Costa, A.C.
19. Circulo Profesional por la Formación con Equidad de Género, A.C.
20. CODICE, A.C.
21. Colectiva Mujeres Lilas.
22. Colectivo Bolivariano Oaxaca.
23. Colectivo Conserva A.C.
24. Colectivo Mujer Nueva.
25. Colectivo Musiquero “Tapacamino”26. Comité de Defensa Integral de Derechos Humanos Gobixha, Código DH, A.C.;
27. Comité de Familiares y Amigas/os de Damián
Gallardo Martínez.
28. Comité por la Defensa de los Derechos Indígenas
(CODEDI).
29. Comunidades Campesinas y Urbanas Solidarias con
Alternativas, CONCAUSA, A.C
30. Consejo Indígena Popular “Ricardo Flores Magón”,
CIPO-RFM31. Conservación, Investigación y Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Naturales. CIARENA, A.C.
32. Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la
Equidad Oaxaca, A.C.
33. Defensoría para la Igualdad, A.C.34. Defensores Oaxaqueños por los Derechos Humanos “Isabel” A.C.
35. Diversidades y No Discriminación, A.C.
36. Enlace Comunicación y Capacitación, A.C.37. Enlace de Pueblos y Organizaciones Costeñas Autónomas, EPOCA, A.C.
38. Espacio Alternativo, YUNHITZ
39. Esperanza Mixe, A.C.
40. Feminismo Comunitario Tejido Oaxaca.
41. Foro Oaxaqueño del Agua.
42. Fundación Comunidad, A.C43. Fundación Ikoots, A.C.
44. Grupo de Mujeres 8 de Marzo, A.C
45. Grupo de Mujeres la Palma. NDACUKO, A.C.
46. Herramientas para el Buen Vivir A.C.
47. Ideas Comunitarias, A.C.
48. Iniciativa Ciudadana Oaxaca, A.C.
49. Iniciativas para el Desarrollo de la Mujer
Oaxaqueña, A.C., IDEMO
50. Instituto de la Naturaleza y la Sociedad de Oaxaca
51. Instituto de Comunicación y Cultura, S.C.52. Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos LIMEDDH-OAXACA
53. Lunas del Sur, A.C.
54. Manapaküy, A.C.
55. Mie Nillu Mazateco, A.C.56. Movimiento Agrario Indígena Zapatista, A.C.
57. Mungier Ndyuc Defensores del Mar A.C.
58. Ojo de Agua Comunicación, A.C.
59. Organizaciones Indias por los Derechos Humanos en
Oaxaca (OIDHO), A.C,60. Palabra Radio
61. Planeta Inclusión, A.C
62. Planeta Rock Oaxaca.
63. Promotora de Servicios para el Desarrollo, S.C.
64. Radio Nahndia.
65. Red de Análisis Multidisciplinario y Cooperación Económica Solidaria, Raíces, A.C.
66. Red de Cafeticultores 5 de Diciembre, A.C.
67. Red de Mujeres Activistas y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de Oaxaca.
68. Red por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. DDSER Oaxaca.
69. Seminario Mundos Rurales Tierra Territorio y Territorialidades UAM UACM ENAH.
70. Servicios para una Educación Alternativa, EDUCA,
A.C.
71. Servicios Universitarios y Redes de conocimiento
en Oaxaca, SURCO, A.C.
72. Sinergia, A.C.
73. Taller de Lecto-escritura Zapoteca Uken Ke Ujen
A.C.
74. Tequio Jurídico, A.C.
75. Tianguis Indígena Multicultural del Istmo, A.C
76. Tianguis Popular Itinerante.
77. Unión Cívica Democrática de Barrios, Colonias y
Comunidades,
UCIDEBACC
78. Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte
del Istmo, UCIZONI,
A.C.
79. Unión de Comunidades y Ejidos de Yautepec, para la
Conservación de la Flora
y Fauna, A.C.
80. Unión de Organizaciones de la Sierra Juárez de
Oaxaca, UNOSJO, SC.
81. Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca, A.C.
82. ¡¡¡Si no están ellas,…. No estamos todas!!!_______________________________________________
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