By: Isaín Mandujano on from the Chiapas Support Committee via thefreeonline
With dances and slogans, the EZLN ratified their struggle that began on January 1, 1994 and called on the new generations of rebels not to forget those who gave their lives.

SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chis (proceso.com.mx)
With dances and slogans, milicianxs and support bases, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) ratified their struggle that began on January 1, 1994 and called on the new generations of rebels not to forget the dead who gave their lives since “the organization” was conceived in the deepest recesses of the Lacandón Jungle.
Some two thousand masked members of the EZLN gathered in the interior of Caracol VII Jacinto Canek, located in the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Indigenous Center for Integral Training AC-Universidad of the Tierra Chiapas (Cideci-Unitierra Chiapas), north of San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
After honoring the Mexican flag and the EZLN fighting flag, a black flag with a red five-pointed star in the center, one of the commanders of the armed group took the floor to recall what happened that night between December 31, 1993 and January 1, 1994. as well as the days of war that came afterwards, in which there were many dead, wounded and missing.

While they allowed access to journalists, they did not allow photographs, videos, much less record audio of the speech given only in Tsotsil. Except for the slogans that were in Castile (spanish).
The spokesman of the event thanked everyone for their presence to remember this date of the armed uprising “against the bad government.” But above all, he said, remembering the men and women who lost their lives “in those difficult days.”

“Let’s remember that this fight is a fight against the bad government, so let’s remember that we must be and continue to be organized, developing what we are doing. Let us all continue to work in unity, let us all continue in the organization because this is a long journey that has been made. It is a job that those who have already died left and we must continue, continue remembering it,” the rebel commander said.
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