San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

3rd of May 2004

International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) would like to share with you its concern about the recent assassination of Noel Pável Gonzáles, a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and at the National School of Anthropology and History. He was found hung in an isolated location in Mexico City. He was missing since April 19, 2004 and was found dead on Saturday, April 24.

The forensic report states that Noel Pável died due to injuries and a fracture to his skull after being raped, tortured and beaten.

Noel Pável worked voluntarily with the “Smaliyel Co-operative” which commercializes coffee produced in the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities of Chiapas.

Last week some of Pável’s friends, who also study at the UNAM, received an e-mail with the following message:

“ Against these fucking Zapatistas. You stop your solidarity work or what follows will be apocalyptic. With your coffee or your ridiculous caravans (here were written the names of a number of students). Follow those fucking Zapatistas and you will see what happen. Without sender. What is missing is the video”.

The e-mail was signed “Yunque”, which a well-known ultra right-wing group in Mexico.

The signature, as well as the threat to Pável’s friends demonstrates that there is a political motive for the assassination of this student.

We are extremely concerned about this brutal assassination because of the way it was done and because of the motives behind it. This represents an attack to persons who accompany the Zapatista movement in a pacifist and civil way. We share the sorrow of Noél Pável’s family and we are very concerned for the safety of all his threatened friends.

We ask the international civil society to send letters to the federal and state authorities asking to:

  • Investigate the assassination of Noél Pavél and bring to justice the people responsible for this political crime.
  • Provide protection and security for the other threatened students.

 

Presidencia de la República
Lic. Vicente Fox Quezada
Secretario Particular del C. Presidente: Alfonso Durazo Montaño
Residencia Oficial de Los Pinos, Puerta 5, Casa Miguel Alemán, PB, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec
11850, México, DF
Tel(s).(++ 52) 5276.8000 exts. 1016, 1017
Fax (++ 52) 5276.8011
Correo Electrónico: adurazo@presidencia.gob.mx

 

Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) -
Procurador: Gral. Rafael Macedo de la Concha

Contacto: servscom@pgr.gob.mx
Órgano esencial del Sistema Federal de Justicia. Promueve y vigila el cumplimiento del orden constitucional y procura

 

Gobierno del Distrito Federal
Vocera del Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal: Ana Lilia Zepeda de León
Subdirector de Información: Angélica Patiño Vázquez
Plaza de la Constitución y Pino Suárez 1, 4° piso, Col. Centro
06068, México, DF
Tel(s). 5510.0349, 5512.9637, 5510.4737

 

Procuraduría General de Justicia del Distrito Federal (PGJDF)
Director General de Comunicación Social: Héctor Ramos Aguilar

Dr. Vertíz 71, 1° piso, Col. Doctores
06720, México, DF
Tel(s). 5345.5410, 5345.5411 5345.5412
Fax 5345.5412
Sitio Web: http://www.pgjdf.gob.mx
Correo Electrónico: csocial@pgjdf.gob.mx

 

Fax 5542.8373
Sitio Web: http://www.df.gob.mx
Correo Electrónico: apatino@comsoc.df.gob.mx

 

Presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos.
Dr. José Luis Soberanes Fernández.

Periférico Sur 3469
Del. Magdalena Contreras. C.P. 10200
México. D.F.
Tel: (++ 52) 55 56 81 81 25;
Correo electrónico: correo@cndh.org.mx

 

 

Example of a letter:

Your Excellency,

We have learned of the brutal assassination of Noél Pavél Gonzalés, who was found hung in Mexico City with clear signs of rape, torture and physical injuries on April 24, 2004.

This student was working as a volunteer with the “Smaliyel Co-operative” which commercializes coffee from the Zapatista autonomous municipalities in Chiapas.

We also have taken notice that a few days after the murder, Noel’s friends from the university (UNAM) received an e-mail threatening them for their relation with the Zapatista movement:

“ Against these fucking Zapatistas. You stop your solidarity work or what follows will be Apocalyptic. With your coffee, or your ridiculous caravans (here were written the names of a number of students). Follow those fucking Zapatistas and you will see what happen. Without sender. Without video.”

It is unacceptable and contemptible for a student to be assassinated because of his relation with the Zapatista movement, moreover because his work was through civil channels and peaceful means, and because he sought to build a society based on justice and equality. We are also extremely concerned about his friends at the university who received this threat.

We ask you to do everything that is in your power to:

  • Investigate this case and bring to justice the people responsible for the assassination of Noél Pavél as well as for the threat to the other students of the University UNAM.
  • Guarantee the safety of the threatened students during the investigation of the facts.
  • Guarantee freedom of political participation and association.

Sincerely,

Name

date

place


Ejemplo de Carta

Sr. Presidente

Hemos tenido conocimiento del atroz asesinato de Noél Pavél González, quien apareció ahorcado en la Ciudad de México y con signos visibles de haber sido violado, torturado y maltratado físicamente, el pasado 24 de abril.

El joven estudiante participaba de forma solidaria en la cooperativa Smaliyel, donde se comercializa café producido por municipios autónomos zapatistas del estado de Chiapas.

También hemos sabido que días después de su asesinato, compañeros suyos de la UNAM recibieron un correo electrónico donde se les amenazaba por su vinculación con el movimiento zapatista:

“ En contra de esos pinches zapatistas. O se alejan o sigue Apocalipsis. Los del café, los de las ridículas caravanas (y el nombre de varios estudiantes). Sigan de pinches zapatistas y ya verán. Sin remitente, falta el vídeo.”

Nos resulta indignante el asesinato de este joven, debido a su vinculación con el movimiento zapatista, mucho más cuando realizaba una acción solidaria civil y pacífica, en busca de la transformación de una sociedad más justa y equitativa. Así mismo nos preocupan enormemente las amenazas bajo las que se mantienen otros compañeros estudiantes de la UNAM.

Les pedimos realicen todas las acciones que estén a su alcance para:

  • Investigar estos hechos y juzgar a los responsables del asesinato de Noel Pavél González, así como de las amenazas sufridas por otros estudiantes de la UNAM.
  • Garantizar la integridad física de los estudiantes amenazados mientras se resuelve la investigación de los hechos.
  • Garantizar la libre participación política y asociativa.

Atentamente,

Nombre

fecha

Lugar

 


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