Disappearance in Mexico Case: Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez
Missing in May 2007 NATIONAL DAY AGAINST
DISAPPEARANCE IN MEXICO
Request for signatures for delivery : Detention - Disappearance
Puebla, May 23. The DISAPPEARANCE PEOPLE is a crime against humanity punishable under Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Mexico has signed it would put legal instruments, such as: the American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Organization. In the Mexican Constitution Article 22. He says: "Punishments of death, mutilation, infamy, branding, whipping, beating, torture of any kind ...."
However, in our country these outrageous practices are followed underway. Such is the case: Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez, social activists disappeared by elements of the Federal Army and police forces in the city of Oaxaca on May 25, 2007, and are facing jail illegal, inhuman, degrading and torture as a recurrent way it has done with those facing detention and disappearance, flagrantly violating their most basic human rights such as the right to life and freedom. The newspaper reports, documentation of various human rights NGOs and the Commission of Mediation (Eat), confirm unequivocally that are the federal government and state of Oaxaca directly responsible for his arrest and disappearance.
In the same year were arrested and disappeared human rights defender Francisco Paredes Ruiz, Lauro Juárez (Indian Chatino), Daniela and Virginia Ortiz Ramírez (Triqui communities in the region).
The forced disappearance as a state policy has two characteristics: for political reasons, which applies to all social activist and opponents of the regime, and for social reasons, that in this, the federal government seeks to disguise to evade responsibility for institutions and the Federal Army framing them under the concept of "uprisings" no intention rescue.
Enforced disappearance on social grounds is supported by the policy of criminalizing poverty and popular protest. So far the current Calderon administration are more than four thousand cases of enforced disappearance, more than 22 000 people killed, including students, human rights defenders, peasants and indigenous leaders, social activists.
The institutionalization of a military-police state under the pretext of combating organized crime is a reality we have the Mexican people. With the army and federal police on the streets has increased and intensified repression and security policy unconstitutionally overreaching jurisdiction soldiers and police, with which the State grants impunity to the perpetrators and masterminds of these crimes.
In our collective memory does not forget the cases of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and torture in the years of the dirty war with the student movement of '68, the corpus Thursday June 10, 1971, with the indigenous and peasant massacres in the 90's and Chenal Acteal, Chiapas, in the Pool and Aguas Blancas, Guerrero, in the six years of Fox: the slaughter of cold water in Oaxaca, the murder of the Defender of Human Rights and Digna Ochoa Placido in Mexico City, and so far the government Felipe Calderon of the existence of more than 500 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who have been subjected to physical and psychological torture and forced disappearance cases found among those above, and, extrajudicial executions in 2007 of: Hilario Benito Navarro Guzmán, Francisco Pérez Ramiro Mendoza, in 2008: Agustín Alfaro Calvo, Ramon Vazquez Celestino, Lorenzo Fernández Ortega, José Gómez Estrada, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila, in 2009: Roblero Abarca, Raul Lucas Lucia, Fermin Mariano Matías; in 2010: Joseph Reyes, Beatriz Trujillo Alberta Darling and Jyri Jaakkola.
In the collective consciousness of our history still echo the militant voices of mothers, fathers, brothers, friends and colleagues claim the live presentation of all disappeared, than facing terrorism and state violence, overcoming fear with courage and courage responses caused hurtful, dehumanizing and negative about the whereabouts of their relatives. Nobody, anywhere in the world, deserves to suffer as punishment of the crime of disappearance detention.
To the protests of Latin America live presentation was twinned from the Rio Grande to Patagonia, a cry toured the Continent: Living were taken, alive we began International Week of the Disappeared, the posters and banners with pictures of victims of enforced disappearance spread throughout America and the world, the month chosen was May. In some places the demand of the people has paid off, the fascist generals are in the prisons of Argentina, and justice need to popular demand will spread to other countries. Require
live presentation of the disappeared today is to preserve life and liberty of our relatives, brothers and friends in the future, is to help democratize our country, for which no citizen can remain apathetic to this demand for justice . Sincerely
not forget, not forgive, reconcile us not! Living
took them, alive we want them!
For a General Amnesty Law!
The live of all the disappeared!
Freedom for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the country!
No criminalization of social movements and human rights defenders!
Defense Network
Human Rights Independent Committee for the Defence of Human Rights Front
Trade Unions, Social, Student and Puebla State Farmworker
In Solidarity: Panel of Human Rights Observation Puebla, Human Rights Center "Arriaga Joel Navarro
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