Acteal: More than 200 individuals from 50 organizations throughout Mexico and other countries participated in the National Encounter Against Impunity in Acteal organized by the indigenous Tzotzil organization “Las Abejas” on December 20 and 21 2007.
Las Abejas stated that the main objective of the encounter was to strengthen the links between different national and international organizations in order to speak out more forcefully against the impunity of state officials in Mexico, to put pressure on authorities to bring offenders to justice and to recognize their responsibility for such legal proceedings, to guarantee that what happened would never happen again, and to call for the respect human rights.
Sipaz was present and participated in workshops during the encounter as well as in the celebration of December 22, which was the day of the commemoration of the massacre. In the near future, various documents from the encounter will be published on this blog (see in particular the last report from the Human Rights Centre Frayba concerning the case of Acteal ) along with other informational and multimedia materials.
Links to documents and home pages:
·Report in Spanish: Acteal a 10 años, recordar para no olvidar (CDH Frayba, 22/12/2007)
Multimedia material (in Spanish):
VIDEO: “National Encounter Against Impunity” (Produced by the Civil Society Organization Las Abejas, 23/12/2007)
VIDEO: Advances in the Acteal case (Itzel Monroy Silva, Frayba – 20/12/2007)
VIDEO: Song by Paco Urrutia in conmemoration to the 10 years of Acteal (from the Las Abejas blog)
PHOTOS: Photo gallery from the Encuentro (click on photo)
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