Military expelled in three communities of Guerrero

Chilapa, Guerrero.- The Emiliano Zapata Indigenous and Popular Council (CIPOG-EZ) expelled elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) and the National Guard (GN) from three communities in Guerrero for disarming for allegedly disarming and assaulting members of the community police of the place. However, it was the same council that in recent days requested the intervention of federal security forces to repel attacks by criminal groups operating in the area. This request was made after a group calling itself the Ardillos attacked the towns of Xochitempa, Nuevo Amanecer and Xolotepec, Guerrero.Last Monday, the CIPOG-EZ declared that the three communities were attacked by Los Ardillas, so they requested the help of the federals. However, they assured that the elements of the Sedena, National Guard and the personnel of the Attorney General’s Office of the State who arrived at the site set up a checkpoint in Xolotepec, where they beat and disarmed police belonging to the CRAC of the Original Peoples.Read more: Cae Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre, former leader of the PRI accused of sexual exploitation Before this situation, the residents of the aforementioned communities expelled the military elements from the area. They also threatened to hold them back if they return, because at their trials they only managed to disarm and beat the community police who protect the area. It was necessary for the director of the Government of the State of Guerrero, Francisco Rodríguez Cisneros, to arrive at the place to reassure the population and mediate with the Army. In addition, he promised to organize a security meeting for next January 3 in the community of Alcozacán.Al regard, the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero Emiliano Zapata issued a statement explaining the one perpetrated by Los Ardillos on December 27 in the towns of Xochitempa, Nuevo Amanecer and Xolotepec.In the same document they indicate that in the face of the violent events registered in the region they requested the intervention of the National Guard, Sedena, state and municipal police of Chilapa to confront the aforementioned criminal group, however, they arrived beating and disarming their own community security forces. Read more: Teenager shot dead inside a soccer field in Culiacán, Sinaloa “Faced with our call to the National Guard, personnel from SEDENA (Secretariat of National Defense), state and municipal police of Chilapa, as well as the state prosecutor’s office arrived, but not to confront the narco-paramilitary group “Los Ardillos”, nor to stop the incursion of this criminal group, but to disarm, beat our Community Police, comrades and regional commanders in one of the checkpoints that we have installed in the community of Xolotepec. Faced with the violence of SEDENA and other corporations, the community, men and women, demanded that they stop and that if they would not help, they better leave,” the statement said.   



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