(Eng) 43 MASSACRED IN CHENALHO (fwd)

[Sid Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

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> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 11:46:26 +0000
> Subject: (Eng) 43 MASSACRED IN CHENALHO
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> Tuesday December 23 10:26 AM EST
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> Mexico Paramilitaries Attack Chiapas Indians
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> MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican paramilitaries staged a violent attack on
> Indians in troubled Chiapas state, killing 43 people and injuring many
> others, a local leader said on Tuesday.
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> Manual Perez Vazquez, a local indigenous leader, told Reuters there were 43
> dead and many injured after the attack in Acteal, in the Chenalho
> municipality, about 44 miles (70 km) northeast of San Cristobal de las Casas.
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> Some reports said the Indians were supporters of Mexico's Zapatista rebels,
> and were already refugees from paramilitary violence elsewhere in the region.
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> The Zapatistas staged a violent uprising against the Mexican government in
> southern Chiapas state on Jan. 1, 1994, when officially around 140 people
> died.
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> Chiapas state government officials confirmed the paramilitary attack, which
> happened at midday Monday, but could not give exact numbers of dead or
> injured.
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> "This is the worst massacre that has happened in Chiapas since the armed
> uprising of 1994," said Domingo Perez Palencia, president of the municipal
> council in the rebel area of Chenalho.
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