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Ooggetuigeverslag uit Oaxaca
Carla - 26.11.2006 11:36
Een amerikaanse dokter is al een tijdje in Oaxaca. Ze schrijft regelmatig verslagen. Hieronder een van gisteren.
Greetings friends,
Today was a Mega March for APPO and the people of the state of Oaxaca. Just days ago the state governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) stated that the problems in Oaxaca had been solved, and that there was no further violence or conflict.
Well, he can't say that anymore.
The march began outside the city of Oaxaca, at the governor's palace, Tens of thousands of people marched, representing groups from communists to indigenous groups to anarchists to the teachers union. They marched and chanted, carrying banners demanding the departure of URO, the PFP (policia federal preventiva, the federal police), as well as economic and social justice for the poor and indigenous communities of the state.
The march felt like a combination of public outcry and celebration. Food vendors passed through, as well as people selling hats to protect from the sun. Up ahead of the parade groups of people waited to cheer the march on, and offer their own political demands, written on posters and yelled to the crowd passing by. Although there were concerns about violence from URO supporters (called PRI-istas here, for the PRI political party), there was no sign of them as far as I could see.
After 3 hours of marching in the heat, the protest arrived at the central district of Oaxaca. They planned to encircle the zocalo, and then trap the PFPs inside the zocalo for 2 days. As I have mentioned before, the PFP stay mostly in the zocalo area, except for late-night forays into the surrounding town, to pick off members of the APPO leadership, taking them from their houses. The march was expressly peaceful, and APPO had arranged to have members of their leadership interspersed within the crowd, to try and maintain a peaceful, yet demanding, tone.
Before the march arrived at the center district, the zocalo scene seemed to be oddly quiet(at least as normal as it can be with police everywhere). PFPs were wandering around, without seeming too tense. Several of the entrances were blocked off with spider-webs of barbed wire, but some were open and people were allowed to pass, although many had their bags searched when they passed the flanks of PFPs. Almost all of the stores and restaurants that are along the edges of the zocalo were closed, but one restaurant was open. We asked one of the waiters whether they planned to stay open. "We'll see," he said, "depends on what happens. If things get bad, we'll close. If not, then we'll stay open."
The ever-present vendors were still active in the zocalo, selling everything from gum to cigarettes to slingshots. We saw a group of PFPs testing out the slingshots.
At one point I passed out of the zocalo to do an errand, and couldn't get back in. Many of the zocalo entrances were closed, but I finally found one that was open. The PFP warned me "There's a march coming, and when they arrive, no one can go in or out of the zocalo. You will be trapped inside." I went into the zocalo, where there were still men shining shoes and people sitting on benches, and we quickly left the area to find the march.
We could see crowds of people about 2 blocks away, passing by, but not approaching the zocalo. Rather than coming direct to the zocalo, the march went entirely around it, about 2 blocks from the PFP installations. Although we couldn't actually see whether they managed to completely surround the area, I suspect that the march was large enough that the front met the end, resulting in a moving barricade of people.
Everything was calm for a while after that. There were many people on the streets, clustered at each of the zocalo entrances, but certainly not the tens of thousands we saw marching. We were told that, after the march, people had gone to eat and rest before confronting the police once again.
About 1 hour later we started to hear the all-too-familiar pop pop pop and boom booms of tear gas (and what else?) being shot off, and we headed in that direction. We could smell the gas, and our eyes began to burn and tear. We turned the corner, and there was billowing gas and police shooting off more gas in the direction of Santo Domingo. My friends, who are reporters, stayed in that area while I headed to Santo Domingo to see if I could observe the medical and first aid teams in action.
When I arrived at the corner where the protesters were clustered, I found brigades of first aid workers soaking face masks in vinegar, then running through the crowd offering them to everyone. People were running towards the center of conflict with bottles of coke, the favorite remedy for tear gas. I saw one person offer a man water to wash out their eyes, and he said, is it coke? When the first aid worker said no, he said no! and turned away.
I then moved towards the first aid station, and on the way I saw people pounding large pieces of concrete against the ground, so they would be a useful size for slingshots. Teams of mean, carrying large sacks filled with rocks, ran through the crowd towards the front of the conflict. And through it all people ran forward with bags and bags filled with bottles of coca-cola.
I arrived at the first aid station, and said I wanted to observe the medical care. Within 5 minutes of arriving I was asked for my medical credentials, was asked my name, blood type, and emergency contact information, given a sticker to put on my shirt with all this information, and assigned to a medical team working inside the first aid station.
I watched as they prepared more "cubrebocas," mouth coverings. They took a piece of cloth, placed a maxipad inside, then folded the cloth over and tied it off with long thin pieces of cloth to secure the masks to a person's head. Each of these was soaked in vinegar, then brought out to the crowds.
As each injured person entered the first aid station they were registered, while simutaneously receiving their initial medical care. Some were given shots of antibiotics or anti-inflammatory medicines, while others got stitches. We saw multiple serious lacerations from tear gas canisters and rocks, one man with broken ribs and a possible punctured lung, one broken nose from a direct hit of a tear gas canister, and multiple serious burns, one third degree (full thickness). The man with the full thickness burn was desperately afraid of an injection to help with the pain, but with an ace bandage in his mouth, so he could bite down on it, and several people helping, they managed to give him both a injection for the pain and local anesthetic for the debridement (cleaning) of his burn.
For a while the first aid station was surrounded by police, and our eyes burned with the gas. The staff passed out cubrebocas to all the staff there, as well as the patients.
After hours, when things had calmed down a bit and the PFP had returned to the zocalo, I left the first aid station. There were still groups of people wandering around the streets littered with broken glass, pieces of wood, and rocks.
So, URO can no longer say that the problem of Oaxaca has been taken care of.
Please hold the people of Oaxaca, and all those struggling for justice, in your hearts.
Cuidense,
Xochitl
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Van  http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=139452
Oaxaca: Federal Preventative Police conduct a massacre against the peaceful demonstration. Inumerable hurt and dead are reported.
· Federal Preventative Police attack peaceful demonstrators
· Illegal detentions and house searches
· Paramilitaries surround the entire city
· Those who are detained are tortured.
· Various deaths are reported, dozens of detained persons and dozens of injured, some gravely.
· The army would enter the historic center of the city of Oaxaca in the next few hours.
Mexico, 25 november 2006. Today was the seventh megamarch in the city of Oaxaca, a gigantic demonstration in which dozens of thousands of people participated, all demanding the exit of Oaxaca’s governor Ulises Ruiz, under whose administration innumerable social organizers have been murdered, others have been disappeared, paramilitary groups have conducted bloody operations, demonstrators have been repressed by public forces (police) and states of siege have been established against rural populations, among other violations. The demonstration’s other main demand was the exit of the Federal Preventative Forces from Oaxaca, the return of all of the disappeared persons and the liberation of all political prisoners.
In Mexico any meeting of unarmed people that seeks to petition the government cannot be declared illegal, and so to carry out this demonstration was a constitutional right. When the march ended, the people formed a symbolic human circle around the center of Oaxaca, which since October 29th has been under a violent and bloody attack by the federal preventative police.
When this civic and peaceful protest was carried out, the federal preventative police began to throw objects at the demonstrators and later teargas, so much that a cloud of teargas had formed all around the city of Oaxaca, causing itching and irritation inside of the lungs of the habitants of the city. In the previous days the federal forces had taken the roofs of the buildings in the city center, from which they threw teargas onto the demonstrators today.
Following that, the federal police charged the people, with more teargas while firing firearms, joined by paramilitaries with large firearms dressed as civilians who operated in cars and motorcycles in various parts of the city. At the moment various people have been reported seriously injured, their number still is not confirmed, as well as innumerable injuries due to the impact of teargas grenades launched with cannons, as well as injuries due to firearms. Various confirmed deaths due to firearms have also been reported.
At the moment the Federal Preventative Police have thousands of demonstrators surrounded in the Santo Domingo plaza and are advancing while detaining them. They are reported to be torturing those who are detained, as well as a group of 20 to 30 detained who were piled up, just as in Atenco and then they sprayed teargas, when they were already under control and in the custody of federal forces. Additionally houses are being searched and illegal detentions are being carried out.
The federal police attacked various civil buildings, among those are the office of exterior relations, the state legislative palace, the ADO bus station, and other civil buildings.
In the previous days the Federal Preventative Police have entered the city of Oaxaca in a state of siege and a military take-over. When doing this dozens of disappearances have occurred, hundreds of injured, various demonstrators have been killed. The federal forces as well as the paramilitary groups had arrived at the time that there were reports of torture, violent threats, and death threats, including threats to throw detained demonstrators from helicopters. There are reports that some of these demonstrators actually were thrown from helicopters. Later the Federal Preventative Police have remained in the zocalo of Oaxaca as well as in other areas of the city, where searches of businesses have been reported as well as harassments and sexual assaults against women who passed through the area. Shootings by non-lethal weapons used in a lethal manner carried out by the PFP have also been reported, as well as the kidnapping of children of three years of age taken by men dressed in black and taken in helicopters.
The Federal Preventative Police made world fame in an assault against the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2000, when they victimized with torture and sexual assault the students who were striking against the privatization of the university. In May of this year the same PFP violently assaulted the people of San Salvador Atenco, leaving a number of people dead, gravely injured, disappeared, and 45 women sexually violated.
Oaxaca Radio Universidad is calling for protests in solidarity in Mexico and throughout the world against the massacre in Oaxaca for tomorrow.
As we conclude this note rumors are circulating that the army will enter the historic center of Oaxaca in a few hours.
| | Vermisten en gearresteerden | Carla - 26.11.2006 11:52
Repressie tegen de 7e megamars in Oaxaca stad op 25 november 2006
Vermist worden (de lijst is incompleet):
Humberto Vázquez Hdz
Ignacio Tablada Galindo
Miguel Cruz Cruz
Uriel Julio Mendez Hdz
Ma. del Socorro Cruz Alarcón
Javier Sosa Mtz
Marcos Herrera
Eduardo Herrera
Edith Coca Soriano
Guadalupe Crea Hdz
Rosendo Alicia Orea
Gearresteerd zijn meer dan 100 compas
Doden:
Drie compañeros zijn vermoord vlakbij de medische faculteit
Tels. Radio Universidad de Oaxaca:
9511246941
9511104172
9515110844
| | Mexico stad, blokkades gisteren, aktieplan nu | Carla - 26.11.2006 14:16
In Mexico stad is nog steeds een kampement van APPO mensen, die een tijdje geleden richting Mexico stad zijn gegaan met een karavaan om daar aandacht voor Oaxaca te vragen.
Gisteren werd het verkeer in Mexico stad al geblokkeerd. Tot 11 uur gisteravond werden belangrijke wegen geblokkeerd, telkens voor 15 minuten, waarna het verkeer 5 minuten de tijd kreeg om weer te rijden.
Vandaag wordt er om 10 uur verzameld in het kamp, om 12 uur is er een persconferentie en om 4 uur vanmiddag is er een demonstratie van ángel de la independencia naar de Zócalo van Mexico stad.
Het spaanstalige bericht kan je vinden op http://vientos.info/cml/?q=node/6930
| | PRI police patrolling streets +cleaning | MM - 26.11.2006 16:07
Heavily armed police, not PFP, is patrolling the streets downtown; you meet them almost at every street corner. Sometimes one car, but mostly 3-4 at a time.
Seems they called in many local police from friendly PRI goverment towns nearby. They have automatic guns, bullet proof jackets. Sometimes wear masks and sometimes have camera.
For people who look like APPO, downtown is very dangerous now.
They started cleaning the streets at 7 in the mornign with hundreds of workers. Alreday most of the damage and APPO paitings, is cleared
| | Update van CML | Carla - 26.11.2006 20:07
Van Centros Medios Libre ( http://vientos.info/cml/)
(ik kon niet alles vertalen, dus voor meer informatie kijk naar de spaanse tekst)
Bij dageraad gaan de razzias door in Oaxaca, na de bloedige slachtpartij die de Policia Federal Preventiva (de federale politie, PFP) gisteren aanrichtte tegen de geweldloze demonstranten in Oaxaca stad.
Voor Radio Universidad komen steeds meer lijsten binnen van mensen waar men de verblijfplaats niet van weet. Getuigenissen van de aanvallen. Getuigenissen van mensen die gezien hebben dat iemand anders vermoord werd. Er wordt opgeroepen tot nationale en internationale solidariteitsakties op dit moment.
Chronlogisch de laatste uren (tijdsverschil is 7 uur)
12:27 Er vliegen politiehelicopters laag over de stad. Op het plein Santo Domingo worden de straten schoongespoten. Een commandant van de PFP in het centrum zei toen hij de krant las: 'Zij zeggen dat Oaxaca geen Atenco is, de waarheid is dat het hier nog slechter gaat worden'.
12:21 Radio Patito kondigt aan dat ze alle oproepen bij Radio Universidad zullen controleren om te ontdekken waar de oproepen vandaag komen en die huizen zullen bezoeken... het wordt een soort heksenjacht!!!! Ook kondigen ze aan dat er burgerauto's naar mensen gaan zoeken in La Colonia Reforma (een wijk) en andere wijken.
12:10 Er vliegt een politievliegtuig boven de stad Oaxaca
12:09 In Pueblo Nuevo komen politieagenten en agenten in burger bij elkaar om mensen op te gaan pakken waarvan ze denken dat die bij APPO horen, om de straten van Oaxaca schoon te vegen (Radio Patito)
11:44 De bijeenkomst van APPO spreekt over dat ze 800 arrestanten hebben opgetekend. Vandaag zal die informatie verder onderzocht worden. La LIMEDH en la Red Oaxaquena de DDHH (mensenrechtengroepen) bezoeken de gevangenissen, politiecellen en de ziekenhuizen.
10:47 Radio Universidad is weer in de lucht: ze kondigen een vergadering aan om 12 uur voor Radio Universidad de Oaxaca, om groepen samen te stellen die gaat zoeken naar mensen die vermist of gearresteerd zijn.
8:41 Omar Luna Fuentes is hier om te achterhalen waar de verdwenen Uriel Julio Mendez Hernandez is. Slank, kort haar, 1,65 groot, 18 jaar. Zijn familie heeft hem al gezocht in de ziekenhuizen en niet gevonden. Hij is voor het laatst gezien bij Ninos Heroes.
| | Ulises+chopper here +3-9 murders +miss/detain | MM - 26.11.2006 20:37
Ulises was here half an hour ago.
He spoke to the workers that started cleaning up the Santo Domingo church area from 7AM on.
Several army helicopters were in the air; one was encircling the meeting and Zocalo.
Another chopper went to Radio Universidad area.
Then Ulises left quickly.
Cowardly? No, he was a very brave man to come here after all that time! And he had called some friendly PRI governments police in this morning, who were heavily armed patroling almost at every street corner. He was a very brave man to come her, after PFP, paramilitaries, PRI-gangs, PRI-police, army choppers, etc. As a captain, he was thelast man that left the ship..., or something..?
Other news: The murders seem to be sure; near Facultad de Medicina.
But strange enough all those real war reporters who came here the last days (some even from Baghdad), didn't do their work. Then there are eye witnesses, they are scared. I might get some report. Some even saw a body (fatally shot) dropping against the door/window of the building he/she was in (Radio APPO).
APPO reports 6 murders in total (at some point even a source told 9 killed):
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/appo_denuncia_muerte_manifestantes_ultimos_1236174.htm
Here another article:
http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/notiziari/mexico/20061126173734123207.html
HERE THE LAST DETAINED & MISSING LIST:
http://vientos.info/wiki/index.php?Lista%20detenidos%20y%20desaparecidos%2025%20de%20nov
Lista detenidos y desaparecidos 25 de nov
DETENIDOS
Vani Trinidad Coca Gómez (menor de edad) Hilda Coca Gómez Roque Coca Gómez Helia Coca Gómez Tobe Hilbert Omar Cristian Marcel (UNAM) Ofelia Cesar Mateos Jorge Sosa (hermano Flavio Sosa)
DESAPARECIDOS___
Uriel Julio Méndez Hernández Humberto Vazquez Hernández Ignacio Tablada Galindo Probio Pascual Miguel Cruz Cruz Manuel Cruz Cruz Isai Cruz Martinez Julián Alejandro Ortega Ponces Eber Cruz Pérez David Melchor Cervantes (Estudiante de Derecho UABJO) Justino Juárez Martinez Marcos Herrera Jesus Herrera Eduardo Herrera Javier Sosa Martínez Cesar Herrera Ofelia Esperanza Robles Cruz (detenida-desaparecida) María del Socorro Cruz Alarcón (detenida-desaparecida) Luis Manuel Pacheco Vázquez (estudiante Facultad de Medicina UABJO) Edith Coca Soriano (detenida-desaparecida) Guadalupe Crea Hernández Rosario Alicia Villanueva Florentino Gomez Juan Andres Pacheco Vazquez Donato Vazquez Ortiz (menor 16 años) 8 compañeros de la Coalición de Maestros y Promotores indígenas de Oaxaca (CEMPIO) adherentes de la otra campaña Dionisio Gonzalez (profe, pintor) AureliaSantiago? Reyes Victoria Santiago Reyes Gonzalo Santiago Gerardo (Soriana) Sarah Ivette (francesa) Carlos el guero (df) Paco (guadalajara) Janitzio y sus papas Miguel (vieron cuando lo apañaron) Heberto (Chimalapas)
| | Persverklaring van APPO | Carla - 26.11.2006 21:48
hier is de tweede persverklaring van APPO, ergens vannacht (Mexicaanse tijd) opgesteld. Dus de meerdere doden staan er niet in. Het stukje hierboven geeft meer recente vermissingen en doden (?).
Offensive by the Federal Preventive Police Against the People of Oaxaca
Confrontation Continues Between the Police and the APPO in Different Parts of the City
By the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)
The Other Oaxaca
November 25, 2006
A large number of people are reported detained in various parts of the city. Two deaths are the result of the confrontation. (as of 9:33)
The federal police began, around 5pm, to attack the members of the APPO that were peacefully demonstration in the areas around the zocalo. These aggressions caused the conflict that is still continuing between the police and the members of the APPO and its supporters.
The streets of the historic center area battle ground and the federal police began to discharge fire arms against the protesters about an hour ago. The ministerial police of the state of Oaxaca and the federal preventative forces are investigating in order to apprehend in some part of the city, such as in el Llano, Crespo street and the market Central de Abastos as well as in other parts.
Approximately 40 people are reported detained, 20 of them women. There are various injured people, one of whom is gravely hurt.
Up until now we have the information that two compañeros have lost their lives due to the aggressions, although their identities have not been confirmed.
At the moment the offices of exterior relations (immigration) that are located in Pino Suarez and the offices of the police that are located in Juarez Avenue are on fire.
The Federal Preventive Police together with the state police have unleashed an offensive against the social movement of Oaxaca. The confrontations have arrived to the area around ADO (a bus station) and the hospital IMSS which is located in the street Ninos Heroes.
The APPO has information that because of these recent events the Mexican Army is in Maximum Alert.
Santo Domingo, headquarters of the APPO’s planton (camps in the city’s center) has been removed by the federal police after being taken over by them.
Faced with this offensive against the people and in order to avoid more bloodshed the APPO has decided to retreat.
We demand the punishment of Felipe Calderón, Vicente Fox, Ulises Ruiz for this massacre that is being carried out against the people of Oaxaca.
We call to all of the peoples of Mexico and of the World to carry out mobilizations demanding that this aggression ends.
Punish the murders
Freedom to political prisoners
Long live the heroic people of Oaxaca
APPO
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