Chiapas court sentences the “Cancuc 5” to 25 years in prison

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Chiapas Support Committee

Bulletin No. 10
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
May 17, 2023

The judicial power of the state of Chiapas condemns the five indigenous Tseltals from San Juan Cancuc to 25 years in prison for defending their territory

The criminalization of indigenous people, a constant issue in Chiapas

From this Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center, we denounce the criminalization of defenders of territory. The Chiapas government once again acts with impunity. Today, May 17, 2023, the Judicial Branch of the State of Chiapas found guilty Manuel Sántiz Cruz [1[, Juan Velasco Aguilar, Agustín Pérez Velasco, Martín Pérez Domínguez and Agustín Pérez Domínguez, five indigenous community defenders, of the Tseltal Maya people of San Juan Cancuc, arbitrarily deprived of their freedom for defending their territory, who were sentenced to 25 years in prison for a crime they did not commit.

To establish the sentence, the judge used legal criteria from 1993, that is, criteria from more than thirty years ago, despite all the legal reforms that have occurred in Mexico that should guarantee human rights. The judge gave probative value to the statements of the municipal police, when they should have been the first to be investigated, since the death occurred in the patrol car of the San Juan Cancuc municipal police. Another notorious fact was that he gave value to an altered death certificate.

On May 3, 2023, the five Indigenous Tseltals gave their statement before the Judge, where they mentioned that three of them were arbitrarily detained on May 29, 2022, in San Juan Cancuc, through a joint operation of the Municipal Police, the National Guard and the Mexican Army, to later be handed over to the Indigenous Justice Prosecutor’s Office, who first fabricated the crime of drug possession and then involved them in the homicide for which they were sentenced.

The last two stated that they were arbitrarily detained by members of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection and the Specialized Police on June 1, 2022, outside the State Center for Social Reintegration of Sentenced No. 5 (CERSS No. 5) of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, when they visited their compañeros and in retaliation for having witnessed the operation and arbitrary deprivation of liberty. None of these arbitrary elements were taken into account, so once again they give evidence of the constant action of criminalization towards the native peoples who defend the territory.

Top part of the sign reads: “The Native Peoples Reject the SCLC-Palenque Highway.” The bottom part says: “No to the installation of the National Guard barracks.” It is this protest against the highway mega-project and the military installation to protect it that led to the arrest, falsification of crimes and sentencing.

This case is part of a model of complicity that exists between municipal, state and federal authorities, along with judges and prosecutors to manufacture guilt and keep innocent people in prison, so the lack of access to justice is a burden of the Mexican legal system.

Frayba demands freedom and justice for the five indigenous Tseltals of San Juan Cancuc, since we have fully documented the existence of serious human rights violations, including due process of law, noting the ineffectiveness of the investigations of the State Attorney General’s Office, which are devoid of legal value, in addition to the partiality of the Judiciary that acted ignoring the clear evidence of the arbitrary deprivations of liberty, and that the five defenders of territory were targeted. Finally, we refer to the arguments of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which mentions that widespread or systematic imprisonment or other serious deprivation of liberty in violation of the norms of international law may constitute crimes against humanity. [2]

[1] Manuel Sántiz Cruz “has been president of the San Juan Evangelista Human Rights Committee, which promotes actions around defense of territory against construction of the highway stretch between San Cristóbal de Las Casas and Palenque. They are also opposed to the presence of the National Guard (GN, Guardia Nacional) in the municipality, as well as against the sale of alcohol and drugs in the municipal seat.” Click here to see article on the arrests.

[2] Opinion number 43/2021 of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, adopted on September 10, 2021, regarding Adrián Gómez, Germán López, Abrahám López, Juan de la Cruz and Marcelino Ruiz (Mexico). https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_d

Originally Published in Spanish by Frayba, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, https://frayba.org.mx/el-poder-judicial-del-estado-de-chiapas-condena-25-anos-los-cinco-indigenas-tseltales-de-san-juan and Re-Published with English interpretation by the Chiapas Support Committee

US regime still desperately hopes to Snatch victory from Jaws of Defeat in Ukraine

from thefreeonlinetps on 23rd May 2023 by M.K.Bhadrakumar at INDIAN PUNCHLINE

The G7 Leaders’ 2700-word statement on Ukraine, issued in Hiroshima after their summit meeting glossed over the burning question today — the so-called counter-offensive against the Russian forces.

It is a deafening silence, since rumours are swirling about the disappearance of the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Significantly, President Vladimir Zelensky himself is making himself scarce from Kiev touring world capitals — Helsinki, Hague, Rome, Vatican, Berlin, Paris, London and Jeddah and Hiroshima. It does seem that something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

As the G7 summit ended, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin announced on Saturday that the Russian operation to capture the strategic communication hub of Bakhmut in Donbass region of eastern Ukraine lasting 224 days, has been brought to a successful completion, overcoming the resistance by more than 80,000 Ukrainian troops.

It is a painful moment for Zelensky, who had boasted before US lawmakers in Capitol Hill last December that “just like the Battle of Saratoga (in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War), the fight for Bakhmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.”

Meanwhile, to distract attention, there is talk now about a subtle shift in the US policy regarding supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in an indeterminate future. In reality, though, no one can tell what the Ukrainian rump state will look like when the jets arrive.

Unsurprisingly, the Biden Administration still seems to be in two minds. F-16 is a hot item for export; what happens if the Russians were to blow it out of the sky with their hi-tech weapons and rubbish its fame ?

The Rage of the Wind: As Fascism invades Europe again – Remember their Atrocities in Gran Canaria

from thefreeonline on May 21,2023 by Tulio Riomesta at RecueRda RepúBlica, read en Castellano aquí

The 4 men went down the narrow alleyway of the San Roque neighborhood with their hands tied behind their backs.

The Falangists did not stop hitting them with the butts of the Mausers. The landlord’s son Bonny’s weapon cut the skin just by touching it.

The Count’s nephew stayed back in the house of old Anselmo Fariñas to abuse his two daughters, fourteen and fifteen years old. Lucia, the youngest, couldn’t stand the multiple rape and bled to death.

Brutales asesinatos falangistas en Canarias / Más de 20.000 cuneteados …..

The destination of the four trade unionists from the Workers’ Federation was the municipality of Telde, where they were going to be thrown that same night into the Sima de Jinámar.

Fariñas found out from the comments of the uniformed officers about the death of his daughter. He began to struggle, to shout all kinds of insults at the henchmen.

He went crazy, he even let go of the pitera thread from his wrists, until they hit him on the head with an iron bar, leaving him on the ground in a pool of blood in the Plaza de Santa Ana, next to the cathedral in the colonial neighborhood of Vegueta.Bonny gave the immediate order to collect the body. The neighbors began to crowd around, to lean out of the windows. The order of the military commanders was that each murder be carried out with complete discretion, that no one find out directly, so that the precise moment of the crime was not seen.Old Fariñas had convulsions. He was throwing blood and foaming at the mouth. He was still alive when they put him in the truck. He emitted some unintelligible moans, he kept insulting the rapists and murderers of little Marta.

San Lorenzo municipal police sergeant Juan Pernía finished him off with a blow to the head from the butt inside the vehicle. The rest of the detained men, sitting on the ground, watched in horror as they took his life with a frightening methodology and the coldness of a butcher in a slaughterhouse.

The Conde de la Vega’s nephew took out the bottle of cane rum and toasted Bonny’s son, commenting on something about the most holy and “Great Crusade” that they had started since the night of July 18, 1936, where they had already assassinated more than 500 men from the island of Tamaran.

– This is just beginning Borja, in a few months we will have finished with all these fucking red sons of bitches, -he said with the bottle of alcohol in his hand.

Map of known mass graves of nazi victims in Spanish State

The men looked terrified. The three from San Roque, two from Tamaraceite, four from Arucas and one from Agaete, all inside the truck that was already climbing the slope of Sima de Jinámar amidst the smoke and deafening noise of the dilapidated vehicle that smelled of bunches of bananas.

Once the Falangists and Civil Guards parked, they beat them down. Pedro, the son of Saro Alemán, fell on his head and became semi-conscious. They kicked him up. It looked like a sinister procession. In a single file, tied up, walking towards the abyss of death.

The night was silent. Hot like almost all of August in the Canary Islands. The men did not speak, they only moved slowly between the blows and insults of the fascists. Bonny kept drinking with the Conde de la Vega’s nephew, they made fun of the smell of the inmates, of how two of them had shit on themselves.

“How filthy and cowardly are these fucking reds,” he said as he lit a Virginio.

Remembering what happened in Jinámar

They reached the edge of the volcanic hole and Pernía approached the youngest of the detainees, Pedro Bencomo, a day laborer in the Betancores tomato fields

He took him by the arm and the young man told him not to touch him, that he would throw himself. He advanced a few steps and threw himself into the void, nothing was heard for a few seconds as long as a galaxy, until the moment of the roar, blow after blow against the walls of the abyss.

The rest of the men were crying loudly. They begged for mercy, they begged for their children and their wives, but the fascists were implacable, throwing them out one by one, playing jokes, mocking how cowardly they were.

CRIMENES DE LESA HUMANIDAD COMETIDOS EN CANARIAS

The bodies fell like stones, some even remained hanging on a ledge of the cliff. Their moans, their cries, their screams of pain were heard.

That’s good. That’s how the son of a bitch suffers more,” said the son of the tomato landowner.

It was almost dawn when they shot the last one.

– Let’s go to the village bar. I invite you, -said the nephew of Conde la Vega.

The uniformed men shouted with joy.

Arriba España! Long live Franco!

Original by Francisco González Tejera in Canarias-Semanal.org. Image in Sima de Jinámar de Wambo on Google maps

In MEMORY of the women and men of the Army of the Spanish REPUBLIC

Citizen protest against the International Defense and Security Fair .. Eng/Esp

from thefreeonline 21/05/2023 by Ecologistas en Acción Madrid

The protest was called by Desarma Madrid, established in 2016 to denounce Arms Fairs and growing Social Militarization.

Other participants in the demonstration were the Asamblea Antimilitarista, Yayoflautas, Mujeres de Negro, Alternativas Noviolentas, Ecologistas en Acción, la Escuela Popular de Prosperidad and BDS Madrid.

“The war starts here, let’s stop it here”

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More than twenty activists have participated this morning in a nonviolent direct action against the International Defense and Security Fair to denounce the arms business.

 More than twenty activists have participated this morning in a nonviolent direct action against the International Defense and Security Fair (FEINDEF) to denounce the arms business.
  The protest has been organized by the Desarma Madrid Platform and supported by pacifist and environmental social organizations.
 This Friday they have called a citizen concentration in front of the Army Headquarters.

A group of pacifist activists has carried out a protest against the FEINDEF arms fair that is held biennially at IFEMA, to denounce the celebration of the arms hall as one of the gears that sustain militarization and wars.

The activists wanted to decorate the access to the fair with colorful shields that read “STOP WEAPON SALE” to remain anchored to them until the show was suspended.

The police have attacked and thrown them to the ground upon arrival.

There is an injured person who has been transferred to La Paz Hospital.

About twenty people remain detained waiting to be transferred to the police station. During the development of the protest they have displayed a banner with the slogan “The war starts here, let’s stop it here” and slogans such as “Warlords, get out of Madrid” have been chanted.

Citizen protest against the International Defense and Security Fair .. Eng/Esp

from thefreeonline 21/05/2023 by Ecologistas en Acción Madrid

The protest was called by Desarma Madrid, established in 2016 to denounce Arms Fairs and growing Social Militarization.

“The war starts here, let’s stop it here”

More than twenty activists have participated this morning in a nonviolent direct action against the International Defense and Security Fair to denounce the arms business.

 More than twenty activists have participated this morning in a nonviolent direct action against the International Defense and Security Fair (FEINDEF) to denounce the arms business.
  The protest has been organized by the Desarma Madrid Platform and supported by pacifist and environmental social organizations.
 This Friday they have called a citizen concentration in front of the Army Headquarters.

The activists wanted to decorate the access to the fair with colorful shields that read “STOP WEAPON SALE” to remain anchored to them until the show was suspended.

The police have attacked and thrown them to the ground upon arrival.

There is an injured person who has been transferred to La Paz Hospital.

Other organizations such as the state coordinator Alternativa Antimilitarista-MOC, Greenpeace and CGT Zona Sur have supported the protest. “We do not want arms fairs in our city and even less in a public space managed by the City Council and the Community, such as IFEMA,” argue the organizers.

FEINDEF is an arms fair that has the support of the Ministry of Defense and is aimed at generating business opportunities for the arms industry. For the organizing organizations, this show promotes the sale of arms to countries in conflict, in collusion with the governments of Western countries.

According to the activists, “this business is one of the cogs in the perverse wheel of militarization and war: weapons intensify conflicts and generate violence and wars that force thousands of people to flee to the borders of the countries of the Global North, which armor its borders manu militari, generating an even more rounded indecent business for these companies”.

In addition to the action carried out today, Desarma Madrid has called for a protest rally against FEINDEF tomorrow, Friday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m., at the Army Headquarters (calle Alcalá, 51), under the slogan “The war start here, let’s stop it here.”

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Protesta ciudadana contra la Feria Internacional de Defensa y Seguridad

18/05/2023 | Grupo, portada, Madrid

Más de una veintena de activistas han participado esta mañana en una acción directa noviolenta contra la Feria Internacional de Defensa y Seguridad para denunciar el negocio de las armas.

La protesta ha sido convocada por la plataforma Desarma Madrid, establecida en 2016 para denunciar las ferias de armamento y la creciente militarización social. En ella participan la Asamblea Antimilitarista, Yayoflautas, Mujeres de Negro, Alternativas Noviolentas, Ecologistas en Acción, la Escuela Popular de Prosperidad y BDS Madrid.

Más de una veintena de activistas han participado esta mañana en una acción directa noviolenta contra la Feria Internacional de Defensa y Seguridad (FEINDEF) para denunciar el negocio de las armas.
La protesta ha sido organizada por la Plataforma Desarma Madrid y apoyada por organizaciones sociales pacifistas y ecologistas.
Este viernes han convocado una concentración ciudadana frente al Cuartel General del Ejército.

Un grupo de activistas pacifistas ha realizado una protesta contra la feria de armas FEINDEF que se celebra de forma bienal en IFEMA, para denunciar la celebración del salón de las armas como uno de los engranajes que sostienen la militarización y las guerras. Las activistas pretendían decorar el acceso a la feria con vistosos escudos en los que podía leerse “STOP VENTA DE ARMAS” para permanecer ancladas a los mismos hasta que se suspendiera el salón. La policía les ha agredido y tirado al suelo a su llegada. Hay una persona herida que ha sido trasladada al Hospital La Paz. Cerca de una veintena de personas permanecen retenidas a la espera de ser trasladadas a comisaría. Durante el desarrollo de la protesta han exhibido una pancarta con el lema “La guerra empieza aquí, parémosla aquí” y se han coreado lemas como “Señores de la guerra, fuera de Madrid”.

Otras organizaciones como la coordinadora estatal Alternativa Antimilitarista-MOC, Greenpeace y CGT Zona Sur han apoyado la protesta. “No queremos ferias de armas en nuestra ciudad y menos en un espacio público gestionado por el Ayuntamiento y la Comunidad, como IFEMA”, argumentan los convocantes.

FEINDEF es una feria de armas que cuenta con el apoyo del Ministerio de Defensa y está orientada a generar oportunidades de negocio para la industria armamentística. Para las organizaciones convocantes este salón promueve la venta de armas a países en conflicto, en connivencia con los gobiernos de los países occidentales. Según señalan los activistas, “este negocio es uno de los engranajes de la perversa rueda de la militarización y la guerra: las armas recrudecen los conflictos y generan violencia y guerras que fuerzan a huir a miles de personas, hacia las fronteras de los países del Norte Global, que blindan sus fronteras manu militari, generando un indecente negocio aún más redondo a dichas empresas”.

Además de la acción realizada hoy, Desarma Madrid ha convocado a una concentración de protesta contra FEINDEF mañana viernes 19 de mayo, a las 19:00 horas, en el Cuartel General del Ejército (calle Alcalá, 51), bajo el lema “La guerra empieza aquí, parémosla aquí”.

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