Santa Cruz IMC: From Mexico: Police and death squads on a rampage, urgent call for solidarity
What follows is a joint declaration of the LTS-CC and the Mexican
Socialist Unity League, condemning yesterday’s savage attacks by the
government against the people of Oaxaca.
Stop the massacre and savage repression by the federal government, the PAN, and the PRI in Oaxaca
For a nationwide strike and mobilization in solidarity
Yesterday, after a massive megamarch condemning Ulises Ruiz [Ortiz, or URO, the governor of Oaxaca state in Mexico], thousands of federal
police (PFP) agents, supported by interior department agents and PRI
death squads, cruelly attacked the brave comrades of the APPO, in what was the most violent day in the last six months of this struggle. Our comrades in Oaxaca, besieged by the PFP, were attacked with shots fired from rifles, tear gas, rocks, and tanks, and the encampment of Santo Domingo was burned down. A paramilitary group attacked from two pickup trucks, firing more than one hundred shots and assassinating three comrades (taking away the bodies of two of them). Furthermore, as we write this there are more than one hundred arrested and dozens of disappeared. Throughout the night the police tanks fired at anything that moved in the streets, arresting people left and right while URO’s assassins ran through the streets with their sub-machine guns. The PFP gangs broke into the hospitals to take away the wounded comrades, but were prevented from doing so by the valiant defense actions of the health care workers. According to the government and the PFP, their objective is to “restore order” by carrying out all the arrest warrants on members of the APPO, which has become a veritable witch-hunt characteristic of the methods used by the old PRI governments of the 1960’s and 70’s. Nevertheless, our comrades are trying to regroup and resist the brutal attack.
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