translated from Spanish: Displaced persons rely on AMLO to return to their homes

Warrior-displaced families in Guerrero, seeking to return to their communities of the Sierra, agreed no longer to have any negotiations with Governor Héctor Astudillo and said that they remain refugees until Andrés Manuel López Obrador between functions, since they trust that he can make their return to their communities.

the displaced, who accuse their communities are besieged by so-called community police, had to return yesterday to indoor court basketball of Chichihualco, Guerrero, without police and military guard.

Displaced people in Guerrero in a hostel | Photo: Reform

today, rejected the offer that made them the Government of Astudillo – through Martín Maldonado – that within a period of five days he could convince the self-defence groups that could return to their homes.


here we are not going to move because we do not want to back up us killed, said a displaced. 

Displaced families who returned to Chichihualco will continue to receive humanitarian support from the City Council, but not of the State.

the State Government already withdrew us support is people here in the town which brings us to eat and even many families are giving us lodging in their homes, said a woman. 

For its part, the PRI mayor of Chichihualco, Ismael Cástulo Guzmán, came Sunday with the people and promised to continue giving them support.

displaced families. | Reform also, displaced persons complained that the so-called community police maintain retained the Commissioners municipal edge of horses, Alfonso González Pacheco, el de El Ranchito, Santiago Flores, and to the bridge prevent those who talk by phone and leave the village.

also, have retained the former Commissioner of edge of horses, Arturo López.

so far, the schools of basic education and centers of health as well as the basic community hospital located in edge of horses are still closed.

our children already lost schooling because of August to date have only had three weeks of classes, said a parent.

Government did not establish conditions.-CNDH! Coordinator for warrior of the National Commission of human rights (CNDH), Hipólito Lugo Cortes, considered that missed the Astudillo Government establish conditions so that IDPs are their homes, in their villages.

I from the moment I noticed that there were no conditions, and check it when occurred the detonations of firearm, he said. 

He mentioned that when they became stranded in the community of Los Morros, the Undersecretary for political affairs, Martín Maldonado, went up to edge of horses for a dialogue with the leaders of the community police and when he returned to people not informed what you They said.

only asked displaced people to give him five days to establish the conditions of his return.

for his part, Manuel Olivares Hernández, Coordinator of the Centro de Derechos Humanos “José María Morelos and Pavón”, said that the proposal made by Maldonado of the Moral IDPs of you to remain five days was something “irrational” in the Morros in both reached an agreement with the community.

how would there be people exposed to cold and to any eventual aggression armed civilians shot, explained.

a US seemed very worrying that people has returned here when a day before they could return to their villages calmly because there were guarantees of safety, but this was not so, said. 

He mentioned that the Government is taking advantage of the situation of these people fleeing violence to save his life. In this note:

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