Cuernavaca Preparing for Four Day March to Mexico City to Stop the War A Contingent of Victims: Family Members of Murdered Immigrants Join the March http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4406.html

Javier Sicilia’s movement in Cuernavaca is far from being a middle class movement, like it initially was. During the forum young people from all social classes attended. What they had in common, in many cases, was a family member or close friend who had been disappeared or assassinated in this War. They are the young victims who have met with urgency to stop the violence. The constant life experience with violent death and injustice has caused them to have even more radical resolutions than those posed by Javier Sicilia. Watching as their future becomes uncertain, one participant at the forum asks,

“What the fuck is peace? It’s not the same peace that Samuel Ruiz is defending, or that the Harmony and Pacification Commission is defending…We must begin that discussion.” Julián Contreras is from Ciudad Juárez, the most militarized city and where, ironically, the murders number 8,400 since 2008. His cousin disappeared for month and then was found dead.

He says, “When you see your aunt tear up you have to go out into the streets…we call on organized and non-organized civil society to organize frombelow to demand justice, peace with dignity, and a process forimmediate demilitarization.”Some of the most important resolutions from the forum are: One, the immediate demilitarization because, “the disappearances, rapes, extrajudicial executions, forced displacement, raids, body searches, torture, and the murders are some of the main crimes that Army has committed with complete impunity,” says a declaration. Two, to stop the violence and impunity, and three, decriminalization of drug consumption