Oaxaca

EDM number 277 in 2007-08, proposed by John McDonnell on 14/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Crime, Human rights and Latin America.

That this House notes that despite recommendations regarding torture, rapes, disappearances, murders and other human rights violations in Oaxaca, issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (October 2006), the International Civil Commission for Human Rights Observation (December 2006), and Amnesty International (2005 and August 2007), and the concern expressed by hon. Members and MEPs who met teachers and indigenous representatives from Oaxaca, police, military and paramilitary and others connected to Oaxaca, Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and the federal forces of President Felipe Calderón continue to act with impunity; further notes that the family and friends of Indymedia journalist Brad Will murdered in Oaxaca a year ago, backed by members of the US Congress, are pressing for justice; recognises that the latest arbitrary detentions took place on 2nd November, Day of the Dead, as people peacefully laid wreaths for the victims of the repression; further recognises that the repression in Mexico must be condemned as strongly as that in Burma or Pakistan; and therefore urges the Government to use its influence to press for all those responsible to be brought to justice, and for protection to be given to those who have received death threats after bringing these violations to public attention, in particular Jaqueline Lopez Almazán, Leyla Centeno, Alejandro Cruz López, Samuel Hernández Morales, the family of Emeterio Merino Cruz, Castulo Lopez Pacheco and Ulises Reynosa Guerrero.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.