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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



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