EMERGENCY
 ECD        ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
ACTION    AGAINST ZEDILLO
 NOW      TODAY AT NOON (Washington DC Time) till 3pm.

"Now, he blames the Zapatistas and very
aggressively threatens mass extermination."
- Boston report of Mexican Consul visit (6/16)

Acteal in December, and now El Bosque in June.
When will the violence end? The war in Mexico must stop.

Today join protests at Mexican Embassies and Consulates.
                    Or
Join a virtual sit-in on the Zedillo web site starting at noon (EDT).

          http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal/zapsTactical/javascrp.htm

*Note: Turn Java Script OFF on your browser.
       Visit Flood Foyer for instructions (above URL).

- Please forward this message immediately

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MEXICO CITY, June 17 (Reuters) - Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes
on Wednesday slammed the government for its policy of ridding
troubled Chiapas state of independent witnesses, drawing parallels with
Hitler's Auschwitz and Stalin's gulags.

In a hard-hitting newspaper column, Fuentes said government
policy to expel foreign human rights observers, as well as federal and
local mediators, was encouraging impunity in the violence-torn
southern state, while shielding the army and security forces from
criticism.

``The state government does not want witnesses. Nor apparently
does the federal government,'' he said.

``Hitler did not tolerate witnesses in Auschwitz, nor did Stalin
in the  gulags, nor Pinochet in Chile. Chiapas without witnesses
means...extermination with impunity.''

The government has staged a relentless crackdown on foreign
observers in Chiapas since paramilitary gunmen with ruling party
affiliations massacred 45 Indian peasants in December last year.

Since January, Mexico has expelled at least 50 foreigners
including 40 Italian human rights observers and a 67-year-old French
priest
who had worked in the Chiapas highlands for 32 years.

The situation has been particularly tense since the massacre,
after  which thousands of troops were brought in allegedly to keep the
peace.  Last week the tension was cranked up another notch when eight
Indian  supporters of Chiapas' Zapatista rebels were shot to death in an

army-backed police operation.

Zapatista National Revolutionary Army (EZLN) guerrillas staged
an armed  uprising against the state in the name of Indian rights in
January 1994,  and the government has been sensitive to what it sees as
foreign  meddling in domestic affairs ever since.

Last week, a key mediation body headed by Roman Catholic Bishop
Samuel Ruiz dissolved itself, due to what Ruiz said was constant
official  harassment that made his job impossible.

Fuentes said the government's policy of shunning foreign
observers was damaging Mexico's international prestige.

``The nefarious official policy of expelling foreign
observers...resuscitating the lowest xenophobic and chauvinistic
vocabulary, ought to be reversed,'' he said.

``Mexico should welcome foreign observers with open arms,
converting  them into witnesses of the government's effort to negotiate
peace in  Chiapas.''

He added that the number of displaced people in the poor
southern state, which nevertheless produces vast quantities of the
nation's
hydroelectricity and coffee, made a legitimate case for calling
in the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees. MEXICO CITY, June

17 (Reuters) - Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes
on Wednesday slammed the government for its policy of ridding
troubled Chiapas state of independent witnesses, drawing parallels with
Hitler's Auschwitz and Stalin's gulags.

In a hard-hitting newspaper column, Fuentes said government
policy to expel foreign human rights observers, as well as federal and
local mediators, was encouraging impunity in the violence-torn
southern state, while shielding the army and security forces from
criticism.

``The state government does not want witnesses. Nor apparently
does the federal government,'' he said.

``Hitler did not tolerate witnesses in Auschwitz, nor did Stalin
in the  gulags, nor Pinochet in Chile. Chiapas without witnesses
means...extermination with impunity.''

The government has staged a relentless crackdown on foreign
observers in Chiapas since paramilitary gunmen with ruling party
affiliations massacred 45 Indian peasants in December last year.

Since January, Mexico has expelled at least 50 foreigners
including 40 Italian human rights observers and a 67-year-old French
priest
who had worked in the Chiapas highlands for 32 years.

The situation has been particularly tense since the massacre,
after  which thousands of troops were brought in allegedly to keep the
peace.  Last week the tension was cranked up another notch when eight
Indian  supporters of Chiapas' Zapatista rebels were shot to death in an

army-backed police operation.

Zapatista National Revolutionary Army (EZLN) guerrillas staged
an armed  uprising against the state in the name of Indian rights in
January 1994,  and the government has been sensitive to what it sees as
foreign  meddling in domestic affairs ever since.

Last week, a key mediation body headed by Roman Catholic Bishop
Samuel Ruiz dissolved itself, due to what Ruiz said was constant
official  harassment that made his job impossible.

Fuentes said the government's policy of shunning foreign
observers was damaging Mexico's international prestige.

``The nefarious official policy of expelling foreign
observers...resuscitating the lowest xenophobic and chauvinistic
vocabulary, ought to be reversed,'' he said.

``Mexico should welcome foreign observers with open arms,
converting  them into witnesses of the government's effort to negotiate
peace in  Chiapas.''

He added that the number of displaced people in the poor
southern state, which nevertheless produces vast quantities of the
nation's hydroelectricity and coffee, made a legitimate case for calling

in the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees.- Please forward
this message immediately



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