Paramilitary Attack by OPDDIC against Zapatista Communities

Paramilitary Attack by OPDDIC against Zapatista Communities

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*Good Governance Board
"Corazón del Arco iris de la Esperanza" (Heart
of the Rainbow of Hope)**

Caracol 4 "Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras"
(Whirlwind of Our Words)*
* *
August 12 2007.

To National and International Public Opinion
To the Other Alternative Media, Nationally and
Internationally
To Independent Human Rights Organizations
To Compañer@s from the Sexta and the
Other Campaign of our country
Mexico and of the world
¡¡¡BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!
¡¡¡COMPAÑEROS AND COMPAÑERAS!!!
*The Good Governance Board "Corazón del
Arco iris de la Esperanza" (Heart of
the Rainbow of Hope)**,* strongly make this
present denunciation in the face
of such brutal and inhuman acts by the
paramilitary organization OPDDIC
(Organization For the Defense of Indigenous
and Campesino Rights), which
occurred on Friday, August 10, 2007, in the
territory of the Autonomous
Rebellious Zapatista Municipality "Olga
Isabel."

In the community of Ba yulumax located 5
kilometers from the site of our
autonomous municipality and 7 kilometers of
the official municipality
"Chilón," Chiapas, the following events took
place:

On August 10th, approximately at 5:00 pm,
the *compañero* from the
Grassroots Support of this community:
Leonardo Navarro Jiménez, 52 years
old, accompanied by one of his sons, Elías
Navarro Jiménez, 11 years old,
left their house to visit their cattle that they left
tied about 150 meters
from their humble home;
before arriving at this place, a group of 13 people,
members of OPDDIC, interrupted their journey
and with excess violence,
kidnapped the compañero* Leonardo Navarro
Jiménez, dragging him 250 meters
towards the mountain, carried out by four
paramilitaries:
Miguel Jiménez Díaz
Vicente Jiménez Díaz
Jerónimo Jiménez Diaz
Juan Navarro Aguilar, this last one was
carrying a machete.
These men were accompanied by 4 armed
people who are:
Leonardo Navarro Deara. Who carried a
22-calibre pistol
José Navarro Deara: Who carried a22-calibre
16-shot automatic rifle
Héctor Navarro Deara: Who carried a
22-calibre 2-shot rifle
Carlos Navarro Aguilar: Who carried a
22-calibre 2-shot rifle.
In addition, there was another group of 5
people who are:
Samuel Jiménez Díaz
Andrés Navarro Deara
Marcos Navarro Jiménez
Andrés Navarro Silvano
Marcos Navarro Silvano
The boy Elías Navarro Jiménez, after going
through what happened, runs to
his house to alert his brothers while his father
was being beaten and kicked
by these people.
At receiving this news, the family of our*
compañero* Leonardo Navarro
Jiménez, runs to his rescue and at arriving at
the place where it was
happening, they had their path blocked by the
same group of aggressors and
in this moment, one of the aggressors yells,
saying: "Let's do what we
already planned to do…!"
And it was then when held by four people, the
*compañero* Leonardo Navarro
Jiménez, was shot by 6 22-caliber bullets, and
was seriously injured by
three shots, leaving him unconscious. In his
body, Leonardo was left with a
bullet in his right leg, another in the left side of
his torax and another
in his upper lip, below the nose. **
The paramilitary that first shot the *compañero
*Leonardo Navarro Jiménez,
with a 22-calibre pistol, is Leonardo Navarro
Deara, son of Juan Navarro
Aguilar.
One of the compañero Leonardo Navarro
Jiménez's sons, 29-year old Juan
Navarro Jiménez, came to help his father,
breaking through the barrier that
the group of aggressors created, and it was
just in this moment, when one of
the same people who detained his father, shot
him with a 22-calibre 16-shot
automatic rifle, injuring him with a shot to the
right shoulder and almost
at the same time, he received a machete hit
injuring him seriously in the
right side of his body.
Once our two *compañeros* were both shot,
and Juan Navarro Jiménez injured
also by a machete, family members, sons and
daughters, and *compañera
*(partner) of Leonardo Navarro Jiménez tried to obtain assistance while these
paramilitaries fled to the coffee plants towards
the mountain.

Once they saw that Juan Navarro Jiménez
was still alive, they took him home,
while his father remained lying there, since
they thought he was already
dead.
At this time, they notified the people of what
had happened, and the people
of the community went to the house of
compañero Juan Navarro Jiménez, while
other people went to place where the incident
had occurred and where lay the
body of Leonardo Navarro Jiménez, who they
found with signs of life. So,
they took him to the Autonomous Municipal
Clinic. Due to the seriousness of
the patients' injuries, they were taken to
Ocosingo, to the IMSS, Coplamar,
at 8:00 pm, approximately, and then were to
be taken to the Tuxtla Gutiérrez
general hospital.

We feel indignation and rage that all not be
left in impunity, which has
happened in the past; in the past months of
2003, this community had
received from the bad government a project to
cover an opening, of which the
family of Leonardo Navarro Jiménez, have not
only been deprived of their
right to move freely over this opening that
goes through their plot of land,
but also had their coffee plants destroyed, had
their fencing cut down, in
addition to the wire that closes in their work
area.
In February-March of 2007, this community
installed electricity, and this *
compañero* not only was not told this, nor did
he get any electricity, but
instead had his avocado trees cut down, as
well as had his coffee and *
cacaté* plants cut down.
In July of 2007, they destroyed the trees on
his plot of land and had his
wire fencing cut.

IN THE FACE OF THIS INCIDENTS OF VILE
BRUTALITY, OF SUCH SHAMELESS
INJUSTICE
AND OF THE GREATEST IMPUNITY ON THE
PART OF THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE
GOVERNMENTS OF RULE OF LAW, OF
THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW AND OF
BUILDING PEACE,
IN THE FACE OF THIS MOST COWARDLY
AND BRUTAL VIOLATION OF JUSTICE, OF
HUMAN RIGHTS:
WE DEMAND THE APPLICATION OF
JUSTICE AND IMMEDIATE PUNISHMENT
OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE OF
THESE INCIDENTS:
Miguel Jiménez Díaz
Vicente Jiménez Díaz
Jerónimo Jiménez Díaz
Juan Navarro Aguilar
Leonardo Navarro Deara
José Navarro Deara
Héctor Navarro Deara
Carlos Navarro Aguilar
Samuel Jiménez Díaz
Andrés Navarro Deara
Marcos Navarro Jiménez
Andrés Navarro Silvano
Marcos Navarro Silvano
As well as: Sebastián Luna López,

Comisariado, Ejidal, from Ejido Mukulum,
Bachajón, Jerónimo Jiménez Aguilar,

Surveillance Council of the same *ejido*,
Leonardo Moreno Jiménez, municipal
coordinator and José Navarro Aguilar,
local coordinator of OPDDIC. Since these
latter, are those who are promoting
these acts of confrontation and division
between neighbouring communities.

WHO IN SUCH A CYNICAL MANNER, HAVE
INTENDED NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO
HARRASS, RAPE AND KILL, OUR
COMPAÑEROS, WHO WITH NOTHING IN
RETURN, STILL
STRUGGLE AND RESIST FOR THOSE WHO
ALTHOUGH ARE UNDIGNIFIED NOW; ARE
OUR BROTHERS IN RACE AND COLOUR…!
THAT OUR VOICE MAY NEVER BE SILENT
IN THE FACE OF TERROR, INJUSTICE,
LIES AND DEATH!
WE CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE AND LIVE
FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND DIGNITY!
WE WILL NOT WAIT FOR THE BAD
GOVERNMENT TO IMPRISON THESE
CRIMINALS AND
ASSASINS; WE WILL NOT BE SILENT BUT
WILL DEMAND JUSTICE; AND SOONER OR
LATER, THOSE WHO LIVE IN IMPUNITY
TODAY WILL RECEIVE THEIR
PUNISHMENT!

We make a call to the entire world, to the
men, women, elders of Good Will,
to sister and honest organizations, human
rights advocates/defenders, and
the Just and True Voice and Word, to demand
punishment and the application
of justice to those who are the material and
intellectual authors of such
unfortunate and painful acts.

With this denunciation, we lift our voice and
word, to tell the world, the
disgraces that are these federal (Felipe
Calderón) and state (Juan Sabines)
governments; disguised as being respectful,
but who really govern the
country by imprisoning, assassinating and
massacring our brothers and
sisters, our *compañeros *and *compañeras*,
who have always been honest and
honourable.

We say, ENOUGH! to the bad government, of
impunity to the Human Rights
violations and violations to Constitutional
Rights.
ENOUGH! of using our indigenous and
*campesino* brothers—who live in misery,
suffer injustice and paramilitarization—to help
you massacre our poor and working people.
FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND HUMANITY!
Our pain will flower and will never stop
demanding freedom.

SINCERELY,
*Caracol 4 "Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras"
(Whirlwind of Our Words)**
**Morelia**, **Chiapas**
México, August 2007.*
*Autonomous Municipalities in Rebellion*:
Vicente Guerrero, Primero de Enero, Lucio
Cabañas, Che Guevara, 17 de
Noviembre, Olga Isabel y Miguel Hidalgo