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Bees in support of the March for Peace March of Silence

Civil Society Organization "Bees"
Sacred Land of the Martyrs of Acteal

Acteal, Chenalho, Chiapas, Mexico

May 7, 2011

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Brothers and Sisters

We come from the Holy Land of Acteal was watered with the blood of our 45 martyrs, come because after the slaughter of Acteal not have stopped the massacres, because now every day is a slaughter in our country. Every day we horrible news killed, disappeared, maimed, imprisoned unjustly by the federal, state and municipal levels. The people of Mexico is in mourning for so much death and injustice. Come popular as an organization because we can not remain silent before such a tragedy in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Morelos, in fact, throughout the entire Mexican republic.

lot of pain in Mexico, but the pain, we know from experience, can bring forth good fruit: many are awakening to the reality of what happens in Mexico. Pain calls us to unite, as we're seeing in this mobilization.

We come from Acteal because we raise our pain with the pain of many Mexicans, join our voice with your voice, raise the cry of blood from Chiapas to Chihuahua is demanding justice against so many murderers, blood is crying out against such impunity.

We came because we tell our grief, our sorrow, our disagreement with all the people of Mexico feel the same, because we want to strongly raise our voice to the many Mexicans who demand peace, justice, freedom and respect for their rights .

We came because we mean by our word Javier Sicilia and through him to all who have suffered so much violence, we do not know their names or their faces, but we put a name and face across the face of Juan Francisco Javier and his murdered son. To talk to you Javier we speak to all fathers and mothers who have lost a child, to all who have lost loved ones in this senseless war of Calderon. Roommate

Javier, brother: We come to tell you you're not alone. We bear our pain and sadness but also anger and hope of men, women, children, young Acteal who have suffered in their own flesh the same as you. In tsotzil to say we trust someone say "we show the reverse of the heart", ie he does not hide anything. We come to talk with all our hearts, to tell you we feel your pain, your anger, your own impotence, but we know, and you know it too, that impotence becomes power when we join our pain, our anger, with the others. ***

We wonder. How did the violence that has come to cut the life of about 40 million Mexicans and Mexican presidential term so far? We think that all this violence, which he says the government is combating organized crime, can not really separate from what we are living long so-called indigenous, native peoples of this land. We live abuses, offal, forced displacement by mega projects promoted by the government with the rich entrepreneurs transnational highways, airports, luxury resorts, hydroelectric dams. Therefore we also live repression of our organizations and our leaders, those who do not sell, the government suppressed.

What is happening, mate Javier, also can not separate yourself from what ever you write your articles, you can not separate the government failed to respect the San Andrés Accords. And at the root of all this is the first sin of government where they come from all the other evils that does not respect Principles of Good Governance. These principles made our fellow Zapatistas, but they reflect the heart of all peoples and we also reflect the teachings of the Gospel. But the government of Mexico does not respect these principles: instead of obeying orders, instead of representing, overrides, instead of proposing, places, and government officials who earn very high salaries that could be the food of hundreds of families for years on end, instead of down, up and instead of serving ... serve.

Javier, brother, we know that your heart is non-violent as the Bees. Alonso, the catechist of Bees headed fasting and prayer for peace Acteal the day of slaughter died saying: "Father, forgive your people." We know that you also have the wisdom in your heart and in your mind that revenge and hatred are not the way to find justice and peace. You know that nonviolence is the only one who can stop the spiral of violence and know the peace can win a war, although there are many who feel this is impossible.

But forgiveness is not forgetting and away from us depart revenge is not justice. So we come to say from the bottom of our bowels tsotziles that ENOUGH! Therefore we demand justice against both criminal and corrupt official. NO MORE BLOOD. NO MORE CHILDREN, YOUTH, ADULTS, MEN AND WOMEN KILLED IN THIS WAR useless and absurd. ***

Felipe Calderon Says "Ya Basta" we tell the criminals and not the government trying to stop them. He says the police, army, navy, are to protect citizens.

We are speaking, not theories, or things that we read in books, but from what we have experienced in our own flesh. After the slaughter of the army invaded Acteal Chenalhó and especially our camps. While the soldiers faced punches and shoving and insulting to the brave women Bee who opposed them, their heads of the soldiers kept telling us "we come to protect them." We knew who protected them. We'd been training, arming and protecting the paramilitaries and therefore we rejected his presence in our camps. So now how can we think Felipe Calderon when he says "the army is to protect them? And we are not the only ones who have seen how the military violates human rights.

face of so many violations of Human Rights which is responsible for the military, what is proposed by the Calderon administration? Does proposed compel the military to respect the Constitution? Do you propose to do to return the military to their barracks and that merely to fulfill the real task for which it was created? Or asked Calderon to answer for their crimes?

No. What he proposes the Calderón and members of the PRI and the PAN is to change the law to legalize the violation of the military. Want to pass a National Security Act that allows the military to keep doing what you already do not worry about complaints from human rights organizations. But do think a fair thing just because it says its law? He obviously does not know the Word of God. Laws may be unjust if the approved by the governments and the corrupt congress. Isaiah says Woe to those who dictate unjust laws and decrees organizing their oppression! (Isaiah 10:1-2).

The priests and bishops who still do not wake up and I still believe the government, we ask you to remember that for the Puebla documents were approved when the Pope came to Mexico the first time condemned the ideology of national security as a idolatry that does not respect human rights. Also did the Bishop Romero in El Salvador to denounce the ideology of national security and unjust laws that applied by the blood of the people.

*** Finally brothers and sisters, we want to propose to you a question: What will we do if the authorities should respect the justice are the first to trample?

Bees nearly 14 years we have been demanding justice against the perpetrators and masterminds of the massacre in Acteal. We have not obtained or the prosecutors, or judges, or the Supreme Court, but on the contrary, have been devoted in recent years to free the perpetrators who were in prison. Therefore the Bees and the Human Rights Center Fray Bartolome de las Casas we have been forced to seek justice before international bodies like the Human Rights Commission.

need dialogue among civil society organizations are mobilizing, put together our thoughts, our ideas, our hearts to find a strategy. It's good to walk and move around, but we can not leave it at that. We need to raise not only our steps as we are doing, but our hearts and our heads together to find ways to lift our nation from hell in which we are involved.

As told our brothers and sisters of Morelos, we do not want our dead to become just a number, but we have to regain their face and name, we want to pass this list of our Martyrs Acteal that we never have abandoned the struggle for justice and dignity:

Vázquez Luna Alonso Pérez Vázquez Rosa Lucia Gómez Pérez Lorenzo 29 Susana 31 67 years 6 years 39

1	Family		46 years
2		Mary	44 years
3		Rosa	24 years
4		Veronica	20 years
5		Antonia	17 years
6			Margarita 3 years
7		Juana	8 months
8		Juana	61 years
9		Victorio	22 years
10	Family		33 years
11		Micaela	9 years
12		Josefa	7 years
13	Family Méndez Capote	Marcela	29 years
14			7 years
15		Vicente	5 years
16	Family Gómez Hernández	Daniel	24 years
17		Paulina	22 years
18		Roselia	5 years
19		Graciela	3 years
20		Guadalupe	2 years
21	Luna Perez Family	Juana *	45 years
22		Juan Carlos	2 years
23	Patience Family	Manuela	50 years
24		Margarita	23 years
25	Family	Vázquez Pérez Marcela	30 years
26		Antonia	21 years
27 Family			46 years
28		Sebastian	9 years
	Family	Luna Jimenez Juana	45 years
30			17 years
	Family Pukuh	Luna Marcela
32		Ignacio	62 years
33	Luna Perez Family	Miguel	40 years
34		Marcela	35 years
35		Alejandro	15 years
36		Juana	9 years
37		Silvia
38	Other families	Manuel Sántiz Culebra 57 years
		María Pérez Oyalté	43 years
40		María Gómez Ruiz *	23 years
41		Catarina Perez Luna *	21 years
42		María Pérez Capote	16 years
43		Vazquez Marcela Capote *	15 years
44		Loida Ruiz Gómez	12 years
45		Marta Pérez Capote	12 years

LIVING OUR MARTYRS, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
NO to violence and impunity! YES TO PEACE WITH JUSTICE AND DIGNITY!

Sincerely
Voice of Civil Society Organization "Bees"

For the Board:

Mariano Pérez Vázquez Juan Vázquez Luna
José Ramón Vázquez Pérez Entzin
Victorio
Patience Macario Arias Gomez Mariano Pérez Sántiz