Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit To the Editor: Thank you, in advance, for giving space to our opinion about what is happening in the State of Chiapas and in the whole country. We have sent this letter to the regional, national and international media for its propagation. Thank you for publishing it in your newspaper. As the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation we are conscious of our commitment to the struggles of the exploited and dispossessed; and firm in our class and anti-authoritarian revolutionary convictions, we declare: Our solidarity with all the exploited and oppressed, workers, peasants and especially with the indigenous people subjugated first under the Colony and then under the Mexican State for more than 500 years. Therefore we demand: 1.-An immediate end to the genocide, committed by the forces of the Mexican Federal Army against the indigenous people in the State of Chiapas. 2.-Unconditional compliance with the ceasefire on the part of the Mexican Federal Army. 3.-An end to the use of State terrorism in combatting the armed peasants and indigenous people of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. 4.-An end to the summary executions committed by the Mexican Federal Army. 5.-Recognition as prisoners of war for all the detainees accused of membership in the EZLN. 6.-That the names of the detainees and wounded accused of membership in the EZLN be made pubic. 7.-That in order to get information without censorship that the regional national and international media have free access to the zones in conflict as well as to the detainees and wounded. 8.-No formation of "self-defense" groups of indigenous people or peasants as "death squads" in order to combat the rebels and present it to the pubic opinion as "indigenous conflicts". 9.-No governmental provocations with the aim of justifying brutal repression against socio-political organizations. 10.-Total respect and compliance for human rights. 11.-The immediate recall of the Mexican Federal Army troops from the occupied zones. In light of the preceding: Organization, Education and Direct Action! Salud and Social Revolution! Cordially, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation Apdo. Postal 11-351 06101 - Mexico, D.F. Mexico +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + 212-675-9690 NY TRANSFER NEWS COLLECTIVE 212-675-9663 + + Since 1985: Information for the Rest of Us + + e-mail: nyt@blythe.org info: info@blythe.org +