Indigenous Massacre Remains Unpunished in Mexico

Indigenous Massacre Remains Unpunished in Mexico


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Hundreds of indigenous people held a demonstration on Wednesday in Acteal to mark the 18th anniversary of the
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Published 23 December 2015

Eighteen years ago, gunmen crept down into the center of the impoverished village of Acteal and killed 45 innocent people including 21 women and 15 children.


Hundreds of indigenous people held a demonstration Wednesday in the small village of Acteal in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, to mark the 18th anniversary of the slaughter of 45 people including pregnant women and children.

Demonstrators belonging to the peaceful group of “Las Abejas” (The Bees) decried the killing, labeling it a “state-sanctioned crime” and calling out authorities for the impunity marking the case.

“This state-sanctioned crime remains unpunished and the government does not investigate the intellectual authors ... the Supreme Court ordered the mass release of the paramilitaries who killed our people, only two remain jailed," the group said in a statement released to La Jornada.

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