Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Human Rights Commission
PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074
January 1, 2015Human Rights Commission
PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
It is with great humanitarian concern and in absolute denunciation of the complicity and collusion of the of the US government with the pogrom of violence and impunity in Mexico that we now call for the US State Department and Department of Defense to immediately withhold all military assistance to the government of the Republic of Mexico as a consequence of the systematic and ongoing violations human rights, collusion and impunity which is prohibited by the Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Leahy Amendment) as follows:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
It is with great humanitarian concern and in absolute denunciation of the complicity and collusion of the of the US government with the pogrom of violence and impunity in Mexico that we now call for the US State Department and Department of Defense to immediately withhold all military assistance to the government of the Republic of Mexico as a consequence of the systematic and ongoing violations human rights, collusion and impunity which is prohibited by the Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Leahy Amendment) as follows:
(a) IN GENERAL. – No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
Particulars:
On November 20, 2014 the Human Rights Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio delivered a petition to US Congressman Matt Salmon at his offices in Gilbert, Arizona requesting that Congressman Salmon provide the names and particulars of the 5 individuals trained by the US military involved in the Massacre of Tlatlaya, Mexico on June 30 where 22 youth were executed by the armed forces of the state of Mexico. Congressman Salomon is Deputy Chief of the Western Hemisphere Sub Committee within the Foreign Relations Committee in the US Congress. To date we have received no response.
On December 19, 2014 the Human Rights
Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio hand delivered a communiqué to
the office of the US Attorney John S. Leonardo, District of Arizona in Phoenix,
AZ calling for appropriate investigation to corroborate the now public
information which details how the federal government of Mexico, from the
offices of the President to the Attorney General have criminally conspired and
colluded to target the 43 disappeared
students of Ayotzinapa under a
regime of terror financed under the US
Plan Merida and the so-called War on Drugs. In our letter to US Attorney Leonardo, we
specifically call for clarification of the issues of Human Rights violations
being committed by of the State of Mexico with impunity and deliberate
obstruction before the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights. We now
restate this fundamental demand for respect of the Rule of Law and comprehensive transparent investigation of the events leading up
to the attack on the Ayotzinapa students on
September 26th, as well as subsequent actions by agents of the state and their
networks of accomplices.
We have become informed that on November
18th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights entered into agreement with the Government of Mexico and
representatives of the 43 Disappeared Students of Ayotzinapa which will allow
for an Interdisciplinary Group of
technical experts to work collaboratively towards the locating of the
disappeared students, punishment for the responsible parties, and assistance
for their families. Our understanding is that the essential aim of the
agreement is to resolve the underlying structural problems in Mexico regarding
forced disappearances, which are not
limited to students of Iguala.
For this reason we have submitted a formal Petition for Review before the Interdisciplinary Group that the issue of Complicity and Collusion by the US government's policies, training and funding of the operatives of the narco-state in Mexico be brought to light comprehensively, and the cause of justice be served.
For this reason we have submitted a formal Petition for Review before the Interdisciplinary Group that the issue of Complicity and Collusion by the US government's policies, training and funding of the operatives of the narco-state in Mexico be brought to light comprehensively, and the cause of justice be served.
We call upon the US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
to take immediate and appropriate steps to confront the COMPLICITY and COLLUSION
of the US government in the ongoing Crimes against Humanity by the State of
Mexico in violation of fundamental Human Rights established under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
to which the United States is a signatory.
We demand and end to the impunity afforded to the state of Mexico by US State
Department policies and an embargo of the armaments originating from US for the
bloodbath that has resulted in over 26,000 disappeared and 100,000 deaths
across Mexico under the guise of the War on Drugs.
Attentively,
Tupac Enrique Acosta
Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Human Rights Commission, Secretariat
TONATIERRA
CC.
Embajador Roberto Rodriguez Hernandez, Mexican Consulate Phoenix
Arizona Congressman, Matt Salmon
U.S. Attorney, John S. Leonardo
Secretary of State, John Kerry
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
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