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Testimony of a detained Oaxaqueño
Code - 06.12.2006 03:50

Testimony of a detained Oaxaqueño

November 9th, 2006 street protest camp in Santo Domingo ( burned down twice by paramilitaries last time and final on the nigth of the 25th ), Oaxaca City


Can you tell me about your detention?

On November 2nd, the PFP (Federal Police) carried out an operative to do away with the barricade Cinco Señores, protecting the University. That day, I was running an errand for my father. The disturbances were visible from afar. When I finished the errand, I came closer to the barricade to see what was happening.

Suddenly, then, the PFP came and, without a word, without an arrest warrant, and without witnesses, they detained me very violently. Immediately, they started to beat me - to hit my face, my ribs, my legs, they twisted my arms.

The detention was very very violent. Then they took me in the vehicle where they kept me the whole time face down and hands back. All the time they were threatening us. With me were four other people. They put us all in the same position, face down, hands back, beating us, humiliating us, insulting us. That was during the detention. As they transferred us, we received the same treatment, but it was very long.

Where did they take you?

They kept me in the waggon for two hours, face down, with no communication, without being able to speak, without being able to explain that I was just walking by. Then they transferred me to a cargo truck. There, they had fifteen people. They put me on top of them. It was very violent. ´Get on or you ŕe going to be worse of.´ They threatened to kill us, to take us someplace where they would shoot us in the head one by one.

Again it was two hours of beatings. After that, they put us on a helicopter. The people who were on the helicopter were very large and muscular men. They threw us around. They treated us like we were trash. On the helicopter they took us to the prison of Tlacolula.

There the situation was different. In the prison, they didn´t beat us. But they didn´t allow us to communicate with anyone initially. The next day they did let us call our families. Because you know they are the ones who suffer the most, without knowing what happened to us.

I was imprisoned for one week, without being able to explain or defend myself, to prove my innocence. Most of the people detained are innocent. One shares with them and sees that they´re people who don´t steal, don´t smoke, don´t take drugs, that don´t commit any crime.Where many of those in the prison detained as a result of the political conflict?

We were sixteen. There were two minors, who were 14 years old. By law, they are not supposed to be in that prison. That´s a crime that the government commits. But since they use the law as they please, they didn’t care that these were children.

When you were in the helicopter, what happened?

It was very violent, as the rest of the time. They made a human pile out of us.

Where there threats?

Yes, the ´camouflaged´, as we call them, those who were ´watching´ us, would say, “Look, son of a bitch, behave or I´ll throw you off the helicopter.” At that moment, one imagines anything, the worst, that they´ll throw you into the mountain. We hear that that´s what they do to many of the disappeared. And we feared that would happen to us, especially because the door of the helicopter was open the whole time. Even though they had us face down, we knew the door was open. So there´s the fear that at any moment they could throw you off.

A teacher told me about one compañera who was detained at the beginning of the conflict. She was witness to how another compañero resisted the ´camouflaged´ and since they couldn’t control him, they threw him off the helicopter. That person is one of the ´disappeared´ because his body has not been found. But there is her testimony.

These are the things we hear , and we believe them because this entire operation is so violent and there are so many threats.

Can you tell me about your release?

My release was sudden. Supposedly I had to go through a judicial process. I was released yesterday, after a week of being detained. They didn´t say to pay a fine, nothing, they just told me I was released.

I don´t know exactly why they let me go, but I think it was because of the negotiations of the APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca).

The stay in the prison was normal. They didn´t torture us.

What would you like to say to those who listen to you from other parts of the world?

Pay attention to this conflict. This unrest is due to the people being fed up with a government that has repressed us, that has stolen from us, that doesn´t offer any opportunities for development, human nor economic, that doesn´t help us live. Everything here is difficult for us. It is difficult to get food, to get a job, to get housing, to get health care. And that´s what the people are demanding.

When the Governor heard the demands, instead of creating a dialogue, or to address these problems, he responded by sending the police in to repress. When the teachers asked for better salaries and scholarships for the students, what he did was send the police. He has always responded with violence, and people have just defended themselves.

That´s why I want the world to pay attention to this and realize that our struggle is a just one, that the struggle of the people is not violent. No one has arms, at most, they have a stone or a stick. But we try to defend ourselves because they have sent us assassins to shoot at us, without caring who they kill, a child, and elderly, a woman. They don´t respect us.

Everybody here is hardworking. We are people who are struggling for justice. And I want the world to know that, and to see that this is a repressive government, an assassin government, and a violent government. As of today, there are at least seventy disappeared. We don´t know if they´re dead. And those who are alive, where are they?

Many people have died, including the brave journalist Brad Will, who was killed while filming how we were repressed, how the government sends assassins to kill us. They are dressed as civilians in order to cover up. But there is evidence of the repression.

Many may not speak up out of fear, but those of us who are here will remain until justice is done and the government ends up where it should be, in jail.
 

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luna - 06.12.2006 05:06

email recieved yesterday


from friends... do something... we have our comunications cut to the exterior and the television has ruled its veredict again against us. here the hunt is well fucked there is talk of another 10 deaths but we have no evidence as they are taking away the bodies... the indygenous forum is being patrolled every 2 minutes by parapolicemen ( you know those vans without stickers nor registration plates and bulls in black with long weapons and no police logos or anything like that )... the international and national outcry has to step up its tone.

even for those in human rights there is no access to hospitals nevermind to prisons, it is not possible to check the lists of arrests and deaths, the detention of delegates from the other is now a sure thing, but also it is a fact that many already turned back homes as they where scared.... we had a session of 30 out of 250 yesterday but noone can leave the catholic house because they are waiting for us outside.

at dawn they went in the five regions round about and we dont know the exact total but we guess that ( because there where conditions for it to happen ) the must have been a shoot out.... we are up to our necks and have no news of what is happening round the corner.

brother favio sosa was arrested with his legal safegard in the bag so that the little paper ended up having an extra purpose. wipping

there are many expression of the state of emergency ... the only guarantee now is to go into negociation quick and that depends on the external preassure growing because here we have no room for manouvering... the siege is almosy total... yesterday night after all day triyng to negociate with the government's subsecretary, it blew up.. howefully we can get back to it today
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