On May 9th, at an event held at its offices, the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights presented its annual report entitled “Chiapas, a Disaster. Between Criminal Violence and State Complicity”. The objective of the center was to carry out “an x-ray of the current situation with emphasis on the state of Chiapas and with a time focus that goes from the year 2020 to 2022″.
The report consists of six chapters that outline the main axes of concern for Frayba: the implications of the remilitarization and impacts of the counterinsurgency in Chiapas; land and territory; scenarios and resistances; displacement and the crisis in Chiapas, an approach to the territories; patterns of violence against human rights defenders and journalists; the fabrication of culprits in Chiapas, from punitivism to the continuity of torture as a systematic practice; and armed violence and population, political, economic and territorial control in Chiapas.
“We are in the midst of a context of continuity of generalized violence, of wars that hurt humanity. In Chiapas this is reflected in a myriad of notable interactions between organized crime, armed groups, and obvious links to governments and businesses. Its impacts reproduce systematic human rights violations, in a context where the Mexican State has diverted its duty in the sense of being a good government; on the contrary, it is ignorant, permissive and acquiescent in the face of the current generalized violence and the multiple layers of impunity that historically add up, exacerbating phenomena such as: forced displacement, arbitrary deprivations of liberty that lead to new forms of use of the judicial system to generate torture; attacks on defenders and journalists in the continuity of social repression, violations of the right to land-territory that disrupt autonomous processes and configure scenarios for new forms of counterinsurgency”, the report states.
For more information in Spanish:
Informe completo « Chiapas un desastre » (Frayba, mayo de 2023)
Torturas, desplazamientos forzados, detenciones arbitrarias o violaciones al derecho a la tierra: el coctel de violencia que asedia Chiapas (El País, 10 de mayo de 2023)
Informe Frayba 2023: Chiapas, un desastre (Radio Zapatista, 10 de mayo de 2023)
Militares se apoderan de comunidades indígenas en Chiapas: Frayba (El Heraldo de Chiapas, 9 de mayo de 2023)
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