Organización de Pueblos Indígenas Zapotecos A C
Albergue de Desplazados de la Región  Loxicha
Xicoténcatl #1031-B, col. Eliseo Jiménez Ruiz;
Cd. De Oaxaca, C.P. 68120.
Cel.: 044 951 115 15 77
Correo electrónico: loxicha@gmail.com

Every Individual has the right to life, to freedom and to the safety of their body.
-ARTICLE 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

During the last 13 years more than 100 zapotec indigenous people, men and women,  have been executed, first by police and later by para-military agents, which is a creature of the state,   in the Loxicha Regio, among them have been a municipal president, ex-prisoners, people who were given amnesty, and health workers.  Just in December, in less than 48 hours, 3 people who murdered with high powered fire arms, among them the teacher Eleazar Martínez Almaraz on the 14 of December.

The deaths that reach notoriety have been few, and now that the government cannot use the false argument that the EPR is in the Loxicha region, not even the red tabloids take note of the executions.   This is how the state is responsible for the commission and the omission of its policy of ethnocide which seeks to empty the communities through violent tactics, including extrajudicial executions, forced disappearance of people, illegal detentions, forced evictions of communities, and the eternal conditions of poverty which cause deaths due to malnutrition, and curable diseases.

The sentence from the Inter-American Human Rights Court on the 23 of November 2009 regarding the case of the forced disappearance of Rosendo Radilla Pacheco against the Government of México sets a profound precedent regarding the always present dirty war by the governors against the people.  Even though Felipe Calderon and Fernando Gomez  Mont aren´t paying any attention, it forces them to pay to repair damages, to explain the fate of Rosendo Radilla Pacheco and to create a law to prevent and punish the forced disappearances and to limit the unconstitutional power of the army of Mexico.

In face of this situation, given that the state of Oaxaca has kidnapped and “disappeared” other people, not just Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sanchez, we have decided to begin a campaign of struggle named “Zapata Vive” which will look to keep the memory alive of Rosendo Radilla Pacheco, who was disappeared on the 24 of August 1974, the 12 people detained on 25th of September 1996 by the government of Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano, the people who were repressed on the the 25th of November 2006 from the APPO, and Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez who were disappeared on the 25th of May 2007.

Given that the insistent calls for unity require concrete actions, in as much as we can do we are proposing to, among other things, to remember all of our disappeared every 25th day of the month, with the intention of stopping them from being repited and demanding firmly:

The presentation of the political “disappeared” alive.
Freedom for of the Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience
Punishment for those responsible for the repression
Respect of and the international treaties and conventions, of the Constitution of Mexico, and of our local state constitution.
The creation of an integral development for the Loxicha Region.
 
JUSTICE AND FREEDOM FOR LOXICHA

Juan Sosa Maldonado
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca; Jan 25th, 2010