Enlace: Urgent Denuncia from 20 de Noviembre Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Originally published in Spanish by Enlace Civil A.C. Translated by irlandesa Monday, April 20, 1999 20:32:55 -0500 URGENT DENUNCIATION: DISAPPEARANCE AND KIDNAPPING IN 20 DE NOVIEMBRE COMMUNITY ********************************************************** Urgent Denunciation: Disappearance and Kidnapping in 20 de Noviembre Community PRI's from the 20 de Noviembre community attacked a group of women from opposition families, who had been displaced from there, when they were returning to their houses in order to pick up their belongings. Francisca Luna Alvarez, Natalia Lopez Mendez, Francisca Perez Luna and Maria Gonzalez Perez were physically and verbally attacked by PRI's from the 20 de Noviembre community (municipality of Altamirano), when they were trying to pick up thier belongings in their houses in the same town, from which they had been displaced. Their husbands had had to abandon the community, because they had not wanted to sign an act of membership in the PRI, and who were then subjected to kidnappings and death threats. They told the women they were going to rape them. At 8:00 AM on April 20, 1999, q group of approximately 300 PRI's from the community, headed by Municipal Agent Gonzalo Jimenez Luna, the replacement for the Municipal Agent, Jose Perez Vazquez; the Ejidal Commissioner, Octavio Jimenez, Arturo Jimenez Perez, Armando Luna Alvarez, Enrique Perez Alvarez, Luis Lopez Vazquez, Jose Lopez Luna and Otilio Jimenez Alvarez (persons affiliated with the PRI who receive government benefits), attacked the women, forcing them to go to the Ejidal house, and they expelled them from the community, after destroying all their belongings. The PRI's kidnapped 4 men from the neighboring town, 10 de Abril, who were accompanying them: Arnulfo Lopez Lopez, Jose Jimenez Mendez, Jose Angel Gomez and Mateo Gomez Velasco (the latter two are minors). In order to release them, they are demanding that Aurelio Jimenez Vazquez, Armando Lopez Lopez, Domingo Lopez Jimenez and Humberto Jumenez Mendez, be delivered to them. These men are from the 20 de Noviembre community, and they are in refuge after repeated kidnappings and death threats have been made against them. During the altercation, two women disappeared: Ortencia Luna Vazquez and Carmen Mendez Luna. There is fear for their physical safety and for their lives. A PRI teacher, by the name of Gonzalo Lopez Vazquez, has been going up and down the road in a white van, lying in wait for the persons who have denounced these criminal acts. In response to this serious situation, the affected persons demand the detention and punishment of those intellectually and materially responsible for the attacks, kidnappings and threats that have occurred on March 24, April 11 and 12, and, today, April 20, 1999, agaisnt those who do not want to be members of the PRI. ******************************* ENLACE CIVIL A.C. Calle Ignacio Allende 4 29200 San Cristobal de Las Casas Chiapas, Mexico Telephone and Fax: 52-967-82104 Email: enlacecivil@laneta.apc.org CONSULT OUR WEB PAGE, WITH NEW INFORMATION EVERY 15 DAYS: http://www.enlacecivil.org.mx http://laneta.apc.org/enlacecivil ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcamer-04.24.99-12:49:22-9291