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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 11:46:18 -0400
From: irlandesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Police-Military Incursion in Zapatista Community
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Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada
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Translated by irlandesa
La Jornada
Saturday, June 5, 1999.
**300 Zapatistas Flee and Take Refuge in Mountains**
*Police-Military Incursion in Chiapaneco Indigenous Community*
Jesus Ramirez Cuevas, correspondent
Nazareth, Ocosingo, Chiapas
June 4.
More than one thousand soldiers and state and federal police
carried out an operation today in this indigenous community, situated some
50 kilometers from the city of Ocosingo. Some 300 indigenous, Zapatista
Army of National Liberation (EZLN) bases, fled the town and took refuge in
nearby mountains.
Soldiers and Public Security, state judicial and federal police occupied
the town center, and at nightfall they were preparing to set up camp in the
land around the community primary school.
Hours before the incursion, members of the security forces had thrown two
tear gas grenades in order to disperse the indigenous who were protesting
over their presence at the entrance to the ejido. The indigenous had
denounced that the police had been firing into the air several times
yesterday.
Soldiers and police officers entered the houses of those who had fled to
the mountains. A small group of PRI campesinos who had stayed behind spoke
with state government officials. The joint operation was headed by General
F. Rivas, who told La Jornada that they would be remaining in the town
until they received instructions from their superiors.
Armando Cruz Hernandez, Assistant Director for Investigations for the State
Attorney General's Office for Los Altos zone, reported: "The operation is
to check out the situation, since we had reports that there was a roadblock
at El Paraiso, two kilometers from here. But we didn't find anything."
Nonetheless, the officer refused to comment on whether or not the military
forces would be remaining for very long.
In the morning 34 military vehicles had arrived in Nazareth, as well as six
Public Security trucks and 20 state and judicial police vans, at the same
time that government officials were talking with zapatista sympathizers and
promising them would be withdrawing. Without any previous warning,
soldiers and police entered the town at three in the afternoon, while the
rebel indigenous withdrew to nearby mountains.
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