The Mexican army and large rancher hired "guardian blancas" (white
guards who are mercenaries, many of them are former CIA) have this
weekend have been killing massive numbers of Chiapas indians and
are now in the process of burying them in mass graves, some of
them in northern Guatemala in hopes of avoiding detection.
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 09:41 MST
From: WPITTS@BOOTES.UNM.EDU
To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx
Subject: Unconfirmed Fighting Saturday Morning
I received a call from a friend early this morning who had received a call
from Chiapas saying that serious fighting was occurring in Chiapas this
morning. According to this secondhand information, the military had began
an offensive and already local hospitals were full.
Attentamente,
Wayne Pitts
Department of Sociology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:51:11 -0800 (PST)
From: salzingr@garnet.berkeley.edu
To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx
Subject: Massacre in Chiapas (fwd)
We've just recevied an emergency call from friends in Mexico. They tell us
that the Mexican army has surrounded the city of San Cristobal in Chiapas,
and that the hospital in the nearby city of Comitan is flooded with
casualties. The press is being excluded from the area. The people being
attacked are the Myan Indians and other poor farmers.
They've asked that we try to get word about this out via email. While we
have no further information beyond this one call I ask you to pass this
message on, or tell anyone you think relevant via any means so that this
does not occur in silence.
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Chuck Goodwin
Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Colubmia SC 29208
(803) 356-6006
(803) 777-0259 (fax)