Banavil community, Tenejapa, during the burial @ SIPAZ
On 23 February took place the burial of Antonia López Méndez, 11 years of age, who died on 21 February due to cerebral edema. The family buried their child in the Banavil community, Tenejapa municipality, as accompanied by a caravan of civil and social organizations, representatives from the state and municipal governments, and State Security Police, given that “the minor is one of the 13 persons (4 families) who were forcibly displaced […] on 4 December 2011,” as the press-release from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights notes (CDHFBC). The bulletin continues: “After suffering more than three years of entirely undignified conditions of survival due to forcible displacement, Antonia the minor was admitted […] to emergencies at the Hospital of the Cultures […] though all attempts to save her life failed.”
It should be stressed that, according to news portal Chiapas Paralelo, more than 2,000 children in the Northern Zone and Highlands regions of Chiapas have been displaced from their communities due to violence.
For more information (in Spanish):
Sepelio en Banavil, Tenejapa (Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, 23 de febrero de 2015)
Un retorno provisional, con riesgos y condicionado para enterrar a Antonia López, niña tseltal desplazada (Rostros del Despojo, 2 de marzo de 2015)
Antonia, niña desplazada por la violencia en Tenejapa Chiapas, muere en el exilio (Chiapas Paralelo, 24 de febrero de 2015)
Sepelio en Banavil, Tenejapa (CGT Chiapas, 24 de febrero de 2015)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Chiapas: 3 years since the forcible displacement of the families from Banavil (16 December 2014)
Chiapas: Those displaced from Banavil continue demanding justice (16 September 2014)
Chiapas: Denunciation from and announcement of action on part of the displaced from Banavil and the Aurora Ermita ejido(10 April 2014)
Chiapas: Two years after the attack in Banavil, displacement and forced disappearance live on,” CDHFBC (9 December 2013)
Chiapas: Public denunciation from those displaced from Banavil (16 September 2013)
Chiapas: The displaced of Banavil, Tenejapa in “precarious and inhumane conditions” (8 April 2013)
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