Monitoring the Humanitarian Convoy Bety Cariño and Jyri Jakkola
Second Report.
The human rights convoy is about to go into the community of Agua Fria, a community belonging to the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, and the Oaxaca State Attorney General, Maria de la Luz Candelaria Chiñas, has announced she wants to establish negotiations between the coordinator of the PRD, Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez, however the decision is not partisan.
The brigade also confirms that since yesterday the UBISORT was recruiting PRI supporters to block the entrance into Juxtlahuaca to stop the humanitarian convoy from entering. UBISORT created a paramilitary fence that does not let the 70 families living under this paramilitary siege to live in peace, until now colluding authorities have done nothing.
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First report.
The convoy that departed from Oaxaca from the church of Xochimico at 5am left with approximately three private vehicles, a 49 person bus, as well as with 1 truck full of basic necessities including coal, canned food, clothing, corn, beans and rice.
Having left from the Oaxaca city square where they met with a convoy coming from Mexico City, 7 passenger buses were gathered without counting private vehicles transporting basic supplies. The convoy that left Oaxaca arrived in Huajuapan at eight thirty, however they were met by state police taking photos of the buses.
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by Ahni, Intercontinental Cry
Despite the armed attacks on two separate aid caravans on April 27th and May 31st, the international community is determined to bring desperately needed supplies to Palestinians in Gaza city and a Triqui village, on the other side of the world, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
On April 27, the international community was stunned to learn that a paramilitary group known as UBISORT had attacked a peaceful humanitarian aid caravan en route to the indigenous Triqui village of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca.
The government of Oaxaca has since blamed the attack, which resulted in the deaths of two human rights observers, on the actual organizers of the caravan. An absurd claim to say the least.
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by Zapatista Support Group Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Wellington Zapatista Support Group unveiled an altar opposite the Mexican Embassy at 12.30pm Tuesday 08 June to commemorate some of those murdered by paramilitaries in the San Juan Copala autonomous community in Oaxaca, Mexico in recent months, and to demand that the Mexican Government give safe passage to the international humanitarian caravan that will again attempt to break the siege and deliver essential aid to the members of the community.
The blockade of San Juan Copala and the attack on the caravan delivering aid in April which resulted in the deaths of a Mexican and a Finnish human rights defender, bear an ominous resemblance to the recent Israeli attack on international groups attempting to deliver aid to a besieged Gaza.
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The spirit of Bety Cariño prevails
by Emily Posner
June 7-8, 2010
Yesterday four activists delivered a letter to Jorge Sanchez Cataño, the Deputy Consul at the Mexican Consulate in Detroit, Michigan. The activists met with Mr. Sanchez to express their support of the humanitarian caravan that left the morning of June 8th from Huajuapan de León, Mexico for the San Juan Copala municipality.
The group expressed their hopes that the Mexican Government would ensure the safety of the caravan in order to avoid repetition of the violent attack on April 27th where Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola were assassinated. The four also asked that the Mexican Government immediately bring criminal charges against those responsible for the two’s murder, as well as those responsible for the murders of Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez and Cleriberta Castro.
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