La Trinidad Ejido Denounces Army Incursion Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Originally published in Spanish by the FZLN Translated by irlandesa Denuncia from La Trinidad Ejido ******************************************** June 9, 1999 La Trinidad Ejido, San Manuel Autonomous Municipality To National and International Civil Society To the National and International Press We denounce that today, Wednesday, June 9, at 11 in the morning, the following entered La Trinidad Ejido, San Manuel Autonomous Municipality, Las Tazas Canada: 5 12-ton Public Security trucks, with members of the federal army and Public Security; 25 3-ton Public Security trucks; 25 federal army vehicles, with an approximate total of 500 federal army troops and 250 men and women Public Security forces; 1 PGR vehicle and 2 8-ton trucks with 24 head of cattle and a Red Cross vehicle. The purpose of this operation was to deliver cattle, as part of the Albores government's program, as a reward to the purported zapatistas who are, in reality, assailants, who turned in weapons during the previous months, and their leaders are Vicente Perez Castellanos and Tilo Paniagua, who were given the Red Cross vehicle for their personal use. This operation was also to establish military and Public Security camps, so that they could later carry out an operation in order to detain 10 members of the Autonomous Council. The lands that the military and Public Security are using for the camps are ejidal property, and they are cutting down trees from individuals' lands without permission. We ask that the federal army and Public Security troops immediately and unconditionally withdraw from our ejido, since they are now planning on remaining here for a long time, between 3 and 6 months. We are similarly denouncing that the government has plans to carry out an operation to establish camps in the community of La Union, 4 kilometers from La Trinidad Ejido. Sincerely San Manuel Autonomous Council (Signature and Seal) ********************************************* The information contained in this list's messages come from our own sources or from other news media, and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Zapatista Front of National Liberation. All the opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors, Visit the Zapatista Front of National Liberation web pages: http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN (Spanish) http://www.peak.org/~joshua/fzln/ (English) http://home.worldnet.fr/ngoc-mai/Front%20zapatiste.htm (French) (in German next) ================================================================= 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-06.11.99-02:45:24-31470