Wednesday, April 29, 2015

AYOTZINAPA: Protest at Mexican Consulate in Phoenix Friday May 1


TONATIERRA
Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
Human Rights Commission
PRESS RELEASE
PROTEST

and

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

Friday May 1, 2015

Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, AZ

320 E. McDowell Road

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

43 AYOTZINAPA DISSAPEARED STUDENTS

VICTIMS OF US WAR ON DRUGS POLICIES IN MEXICO

Phoenix, AZ - Upon return from the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, the Human Rights Commission of the Comités de Defensa del Barrio will deliver to the office of the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, AZ a demand for the government of Mexico to invite the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to investigate the Human Rights violations implicated in the forced disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico.  Missing since September 26, 2014 the 43 students of the Raul Isidro Burgos Normal School were violently abducted and disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, with testimony and evidence pointing to collusion and complicity with agents of the Mexican federal government and military apparatus, guided and funded by the US funded "War on Drugs" policies known as Plan Merida-Mexico. 


With support of Indigenous Peoples from around the world, María de Jesús Tlatempa Bello, mother of José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa - one of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, participated in the TONATIERRA delegation to the United Nations in New York. She delivered in person and via official UN channels the Petition of Concern to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. The blatant impunity of state sanctioned violence and criminal collusion in Mexico has produced 30,000 disappeared and missing victims across Mexico currently, and 100,000 deaths since the US funded and directed War on Drugs, now known officially as Plan Merida-Mexico. 


An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Interdisciplinary Group of technical experts is also now working collaboratively in Mexico towards the locating of the disappeared students, calling for punishment for the responsible parties, and assistance for their families.
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