Paramilitary Attacks against Comandante Abel Zapatista Community Continue � dorset chiapas solidarity

15.9.12

Paramilitary Attacks against Comandante Abel Zapatista Community Continue � dorset chiapas solidarity: The violent invasion of the community began on September 6, and despite the denunciations, authorities have not intervened to stop the attacks. On September 8, “shots from high-calibre weapons fired in the direction of the community continued.” Children, women and elderly “hid under trees, trunks, rocks and dispersed into the woods and mountains for fear of being hit by the bullets.” They spent the night like this “in the cold and rain, until two days later their whereabouts was discovered when they emerged in some communities.”

The Junta reports that two displaced women and two children sick with fever, vomiting, diarrhea and cough are missing. “We have 70 [displaced] between men and women, children and elderly. Some have stayed to defend the land.” That day, “the invaders constructed two trenches and three houses,” while the Zapatista bases from neighboring Union Hidalgo were also displaced by “fierce threats of being massacred by paramilitaries from the same community.” The families “fled to the mountain for three days; there are ten displaced and a newborn. Only the young ones stayed to take care of their houses and belongings.”