[Bloquez l'empire!] Aggressions against the people of Oaxaca

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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.

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