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Original Delegation
Pages
9/21/99
press release
9/21/99
boletin de prensa
Traps
in Amador Hernandez
Fires
are pretext 5/5/00
Another
trip planned 5/4/00
Critical
time 5/2/00
Forest
fires 5/2/00
Wind
of war 5/2/00
Paramilitary
pincer 5/1/00
Rights
Abuse rpt 4/25/00
Cocopa
Pres. 4/25/00
Military
Fortress 4/25/00
Paramilitaries
gain 4/23/00
Army
encirclement 4/23/00
Ethnocide
charges 4/21/00
Legislators
4/20/00
Encircling
EZLN 4/17/00
Amador
blockade 4/15/00
Presentation
to UN 4/14/00
IED/HLP
to press 4/14/00
Caravan
harrassed 4/12/00 Malnutrition
4/10/00
Army in the Selva 4/9/00
UN
Realtor 4/8/00
Marcos
letter 3/21/00
Las
Abejas 3/19/00
Raul Vera 3/13/00
Sen Hayden 2/25/00
Sen Hayden 2/17/00 #2
Sen Hayden 2/17/00 #1
Moises Ghandi 2/13/00
UN- HR abuses 11/26/99
Radio interview 11/24/99
SOA protest 11/21/99
Amador 11/12/99
SOA - CIEPAC rpt 11/5/99
Marcos to Robinson 11/99
PRODH attack 10/28/99
Moises
Ghandi 10/25/99
Acteal
background 1999
Fray
Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center
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Mexican
Seeks to Save Chiapas Jungle from Farmers
MEXICO CITY, May 2 (Reuters)
Mexican officials are trying to convince 17 indigenous communities
in the troubled state of Chiapas to leave their homes in an
ecological reserve in order to save the land from forest fires,
according to media reports on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Diodoro Carrasco said federal and local officials
were "negotiating" with residents of the Montes Azules
region -- one of Mexico's last remaining rain forests -- to
stop slash-and-burn farming that can lead to forest fires, the
daily La Jornada and other newspapers reported.
Mexican authorities are offering the Indians "relocation
options and to guarantee the protection of the reserve,"
Carrasco was quoted as saying.
Opposition legislators have claimed that the government was
sending police and army reinforcements into the area to increase
its military presence around the jungle hide-outs of the Zapatista
rebels, who staged an armed uprising on New Year's Day 1994,
demanding improved indigenous rights.
Negotiations between the Zapatistas and the government broke
down in 1996 over the implementation of a peace accord. The
Mexican government has deployed thousands of troops in the area,
and set up military checkpoints throughout the state.
Local human rights groups said police reinforcements and the
army were harassing residents of the Montes Azules area.
But Carrasco said the aim of sending police into the region
was to prevent the jungle from going up in smoke as the traditional
period for burning down old crops to prepare land for planting
began.
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