Office of CNDH in San Cristóbal (@SIPAZ)
On 6 April, nine women from the Emiliano Zapata Campesino Organization-Carranza Region (OCEZ-RC) sought refuge in the offices of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. They affirmed that they would remain in the building until the government of Chiapas attend to their demands. OCEZ-RC reported also that it had sent a letter to the president of the CNDH, Raúl Placencia Villanueva, explaining the motives for the occupation of the offices in the city. “15 months have passed and our commission of delegates has traveled no less than 27 times to Tuxtla Gutérrez, and it always the same: no definitive progress,” they claim in the document.
Similarly, close to one hundred members of OCEZ-RC installed a sit-in in front of the Palace of Governance in Tuxtla Gutiérrez as part of a day of resistance and diffusion to demand the observation of the accords signed with state authorities at the end of 2009 regarding the regularization of several lands and economic support for productive projects and compensation for suffered aggressions. Similarly, they occupied the La Ceiba, El Sauz, Santa Julieta, Nueva Italia, La Palma, and La Gloria territories in the zone of Venustiano Carranza. It should be stressed that some of these lands occupied by the OCEZ-RC in this municipality are sources of conflict with other organizations and groups that denounce that OCEZ-RC took them in an irregular and even violent manner.
Following an accord with the CNDH on Saturday 9 April, and after 4 days, the nine OCEZ-RC women returned to their communities in the region of Venustiano Carranza. OCEZ-RC informed that it ended its day of action, considering that the state government of Chiapas had once again committed itself to taking up dialogue at the negotiation-table under a new format and in search of a definitive solution. In a good-faith gesture, OCEZ-RC also suspended the sit-in it had installed in Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
For more information (in Spanish):
CNDH asiste a OCEZ ante las autoridades (Cuarto Poder, 11 April 2011)
Denuncia Candelaria el Alto (11 de abril 2011)
Pronunciamiento de las mujeres de OCEZ RC al retirarse de la CNDH (9 de abril de 2011)
Acta de acuerdos CNDH y OCEZ RC (9 abril de 2011)
Mujeres toman sede de CNDH en Chiapas (El Universal, 6 de abril de 2011)
Gente de OCEZ- RC hace jornada de resistencia (Cuarto Poder, 7 de abril de 2011)
Boletín de prensa del Comité de Derechos Humanos de base de Chiapas Digna Ochoa (6 April 2011)
Carta OCEZ-RC a la CNDH (6 April 2011)
Anuncio OCEZ RC sobre inicio de jornadas de resistencia (6 April 2011)
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