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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Murders Strengthen Resolve of Autonomous Indigenous Community http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51537

"We feel defenceless, but we're going to return to San Juan Copala and accompany the family of our dead friend and colleague," Jorge Albino, spokesperson for his autonomous village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS Friday.Albino and a group of non-governmental organisations on Friday laid the blame for the killings on the administration of Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and on the state's Popular Unity Party (PUP).

The NGOs are preparing another convoy for Jun. 8 in order to "break the paramilitary siege" that has paralysed the community for months, said Alejandro Encinas, a lawmaker of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), told a press conference Friday. The Triqui organisations believe Governor Ruiz's intention is to block San Juan Copala's autonomy and prevent the notion of independence from spreading to more communities in Oaxaca, as well as to militarise the region. "We will not fall for the state's provocations. We are committed to the autonomy of San Juan Copala," said Albino, who led a rally Friday to protest the murders of Ramírez and Castro

comment-also see..Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico; http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6635

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