Dear supporter of indigenous women’s rights and freedoms, The Comité pro-Reparaciones para las Hermanas González de Chiapas, el Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, el Colectivo de Mujeres de San Cristóbal, la Comisión Mexicana para la Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, and el Centro para la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional invite you to join a campaign to pressure the Mexican government to grant reparations to the Celia, Beatriz, and Ana González, three indigenous women raped by soldiers at a military checkpoint in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994. After fifteen years of injustice, the sisters and their mother, a witness to the attacks, have completed key depositions. Justice will only be realized, however, through political pressure by organizations since the Mexican military refuses to acknowledge the crimes of its soldiers. As an organization or individual who combats violence against women of color, militarization of indigenous territories, and state violence against indigenous communities, we, in consultation with the survivors themselves (consulted on May 18, 2009) urge you to participate in this campaign. There are two ways to participate in the campaign. 1. If you belong to an organization, we urge you to send a fax in the name of your organization to the two government and military agencies most closely related to the case as well as the Inter-American Commission, who is in charge of seeing that Mexico follows its recommendations for justice and reparations. We have prepared a letter in a Word document for each agency. Please download each letter, insert the name of your organization and the date, and sign at the bottom. You may also want to modify the letter in some way. The download letter includes the fax number for each agency. Follow these links for: “https://hermanasgonzalez.org/fax/mexicomilitary.doc”; “https://hermanasgonzalez.org/fax/Mexicodepartmentofstate.doc”; and “https://hermanasgonzalez.org/fax/IACHR.doc”. If you are interested in sending a fax but do not have a way to do so please contact us at comite@hermanasgonzalez.org so we can facilitate sending a fax on your behalf. 2. If you wish to participate as an individual, we encourage you to either send a fax as indicated above, or sign a petition we have prepared. To get to the petition click the following link. https://hermanasgonzalez.org/petition/ We hope that you are able to support this cause. In struggle against state violence against indigenous women, Comité Pro-Reparación de las Hermanas González de Chiapas, the Chiapas Women’s Rights Center, the Colectivo de Mujeres de San Cristóbal, the Comisión Mexicana para la Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, and el Centro para la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional
Stop military rape in Chiapas
