Photo @ Contralínea
On 11 January, Julián González Domínguez, leader of the International Network of Oaxacan Indigenous Persons (RIIO) and representative of the Movement for National Regeneration (MORENA) in the Triqui region, was murdered after an armed group forcibly removed him from his home in the La Brama Paraje Pérez community in the Santiago Juxtlahuaca municipality. The RIIO state coordination expressed that Julián González, founder of the Movement for the Unification of Triqui Struggle (MULT) and MULT-Independent (MULT-I) was subsequently found in the same municipality with two gunshot wounds in the head. It added that the leader had received death-threats owing to agrarian conflicts in the region.
It should be noted that González Domínguez was the point-man for organizing the visit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Tlaxiaco municipality on 24 January. His wife had previously been awarded precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
For more information (in Spanish):
Asesinan a líder triqui, impulsor de la autonomía (Contralínea, 13 de enero de 2015)
Ejecutan a líder de Morena (Noticias Net, 13 de enero de 2015)
La Mixteca, Oaxaca, asesinan dirigente de MORENA (Regeneración, 11 de enero de 2015)
Comando asesina en Oaxaca a dirigente triqui afín a Morena (Excelsior, 12 de enero de 2015)
Asesinan a Julián González, dirigente triqui de Morena en la Mixteca(SDP Noticias, 12 de enero de 2015)
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