translated from Spanish: Chiapas displaced accuse parties of pursuing them

members of displaced people from the State of Chiapas Coordinator carry years refugees in the Chiapas State capital and other towns, far from their homes. Some are for 10 years displaced, in 2019. All say that they left their places of origin by the harassment and attacks of those who were victims in the elections of 2009 and 2015, when they refused to give their support to political parties and they were attacked by this.
This group is made up of 388 indigenous Tzeltal and Tzotzil from four communities of los Altos de Chiapas, specifically in the towns of Ocosingo and Chenalho; However, in the mountainous area of this Southern State have been displaced by violence around seven thousand people during the six years of the administration of Manuel Velasco, accused the director of the Centre of human rights, Ku’ Untik, Diego Cadena.
Members of the Coordinating Committee accompanied by string began two weeks ago the ‘caravan of tired feet’ from San Cristóbal de las Casas to Tuxtla Gutierrez to demand state that guarantees them security to return to their lands.
On November 20 they tried to manifest itself during the last report of Government of Velasco to demand solution to their conflict but they were repelled with tear gas. Therefore this Wednesday they held a Conference in the city of Mexico to demand President Andrés Manuel López Obrador his speech.
“We are angry now give a prize to Velasco with a senatorship and Eduardo Ramírez is in the party that governs the country.” We ask for the intervention of the President, we are in the street and we don’t want that no one suffer it more, we want punishment for the sliders”activist Catarina Etzin López said in reference to the seats that will occupy the outgoing Governor, Manuel Velasco and the ex-leader of the Green Party in Chiapas, Óscar Eduardo Ramírez.
Both fought in that game and in the East year joined the party brunette, López Obrador, looking for a senatorship; Although their nominations generated much criticism of the Chiapas people both inside the President’s own party.
Lopez said during the Conference that displaced persons from el ejido Puebla, in the municipality of Chenalhó, carry two and a half years out of their lands “because we didn’t want to vote for the Green and attacked us with bullets”; as a result of those attacks died a person, Guadalupe Cruz Hernández.
For his part, Eva Méndez told that 12 families of Cintalapa, in the municipality of Ocosingo, are displaced as of March 6, 2009, once a teenage son of a paramilitary was killed with a machete and two members of his family were charged by that homicide.
“The green have their bad habits and we don’t want to participate in them, so we were harassing”, says Mendez, one of the 43 people who were forced to flee Cintalapa nearly 10 years ago. His brothers, Armando Amílcar Méndez Núñez, detained for the death of the young and were subsequently released; but his family suffered other attacks: they raided his house with violence, raped her sister-in-law, she asked 25 thousand pesos for cease attacks and forced his father to burn documents that proved their properties and charges in the community.
María Cristina Pérez, one of the complainants, said that his community was displaced by a group of alleged PRI members who attacked them by refusing to vote for that party and sympathize with the Zapatista Army of national liberation (EZLN).
Diego Cadena told Animal politician than the four communities that make up the Coordinating Committee, three are adherents to the other campaign – political initiative by the EZLN in the State – and one is supporter of the PRI, who became opposition when he broke in that area its alliance with the Green Party, after getting the governorship.
Due to these political trends, said the activist, they are constantly harassed and attacked by paramilitary forces in the municipality of Chenalho that promote the vote in favour of the PVEM. The testimonies of the Indians attacked, declared human rights, Ku Center ‘ Untik, concerned that the attacks have been ordained by the exalcaldesa of Chenalhó, Rosa Pérez Pérez and the current mayor, Abraham Cruz Gómez. Political animal requested version of this last unanswered so far.
By all these facts, the indigenous tzotziles and tzeltales of Chiapas saw asked the new Government of Lopez Obrador that the outgoing Governor to be prosecuted so it will respond by almost seven thousand movements that occurred during his administration, as well as the disbandment of paramilitary groups for insurance to return to their communities.
Chain added that it requires a federal law against forced displacement and the criminalization of that scourge, which will request the support of Senator Emilio Álvarez Icaza, with whom he will meet on Thursday in the Senate.
The Coordinator of displaced people from the State of Chiapas is a group of the thousands of displaced persons in Chiapas refugees currently in other communities with armed, mainly paramilitary violence.

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