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On March 22nd, the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) denounced that despite the presence of National Guard agents and state police in the area, there were more than 40 attacks with firearms in Aldama, during that weekend alone.
Through an urgent action, it clarified that the information came to it through the Permanent Commission of the 115 community members and displaced persons of Aldama: “during March 20th and 21st, 2021, the Aldama communities have been attacked with gunshots from high-caliber weapons from different points located in Santa Martha-Miguel Utrilla, municipality of Chenalho, acts provoked by the paramilitary group in complicity with the municipal government by members of a paramilitary group from Santa Martha, Chenalho, in complicity with the municipal government.”
Frayba expressed its concern over “the acts of armed aggression that the population of the municipality of Aldama is constantly experiencing. These events are part of a persistent violence with psychological impacts that the population is already experiencing and leads to a deep rupture of the social fabric.”
It should be remembered that the old agrarian conflict between Aldama and Santa Martha, Chenalho has already left more than 20 dead on both sides and several injured. Although the municipal presidents of both places signed peace agreements in 2019 and in 2020, it has not been possible to put an end to the attacks.
For more information in Spanish:
El fin de semana hubo más de 40 ataques en Aldama: Frayba (La Jornada, 23 de marzo de 2021)
Siguen agresiones entre Chenalhó y Aldama pese a acuerdos (El Heraldo de Chiapas, 23 de marzo de 2021)
Se registraron más de 40 ataques hacia las comunidades de Aldama.(Accion Urgente Frayba, 22 de marzo de 2021)
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