Members of the Triqui Unification and Struggle Movement (MULT) demanded this Monday an audience with the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to promote dialogue tables that provide guarantees of justice and security in the face of the violence experienced in their communities, located in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, by denouncing that the Independent Triqui Unification and Struggle Movement (MULTI) has murdered 31 of its members since 2019.
In front of the offices of the Ministry of the Interior, Virginia Merino García, a member of the MULT, read a four-point petition in which she requested the installation of tables for the clarification of all crimes committed against the organization and the preparation of a comprehensive justice plan for the Triqui nation.
He also asked for security checkpoints to be placed on the federal highway that runs from the community of Concepción Carrizal to the Yerbasanta Summit Deviation to inhibit violence and reestablish the conditions for dialogue with the other actors, “urgently, with the goal of reaching true peace in our Triqui region of Copala.”
Octavio de Jesús Díaz, coordinator of the MULT in Oaxaca, accused the MULTI of not respecting the various agreements, including the non-aggression or security agreement, reached since the last six-year term with both federal and state authorities. He accused the MULTI of having committed the 31 murdered members of his community so far, and urged the government to launch investigations and arrests.
The members later mobilized in front of the National Palace facilities to make the same demands to the president. De Jesús assured that during the day similar acts were also carried out from the fountain of the eight regions to the main square of Oaxaca City, where a sit-in was set up until there is a response from the state governor, Salomón Jara Cruz.
After completing 43 years of the founding of the MULT, Merino García explained that “our day of struggle has the objective of denouncing the paramilitaries who shoot against our communities, and who are creating terror among our people. We do not want more impunity on the part of the government agencies, which have the obligation to arrest the material and intellectual authors urgently and thus fulfill their duty to the families who have lost their loved ones.”
Source: jornada
