Police shoot at indigenous Tseltales from San Sebastián Bachajón when they try to recover their lands near the Agua Azul waterfalls.

3 wounded,

January 11, 2015

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Alert Latest News – four large lorries full of police have arrived at the Agua Azul crossroads

Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle blocked the turning to the waterfalls of Agua Azul at 6.30 am on the 11th January, in resistance against the dispossession of their lands which took place on 9th January.

The state police placed barricades of trees five hundred meters from the turning to the waterfalls, while shooting at them with rubber bullets and live ammunition from a van and a truck of the local and state police.

The attack lasted about fifteen to twenty minutes. At the moment there are thought to be two who have been injured by rubber bullets, and one by a firearm. Furthermore bullet casings from firearms were found on the ground.

The indigenous, who were unarmed, did not retreat before the attack and drove the police back at half past seven.

The demand of the Tseltal adherents to the Sixth is that the police leave the lands of Bachajón. The ejidatarios will not allow them dispossess them again from the lands of which they are the legitimate owners.

Reports say that Juan Pérez Moreno, from the ejido San Sebastián Bachajón has a gunshot wound in his left arm. The area remains tense, and the police presence continues.

http://komanilel.org/2015/01/11/alertabachajon-policia-dispara-a-indigenas-tseltales-de-san-sebastian-bachajon-cuando-intentaron-recuperar-sus-tierras-frente-a-las-cascadas-de-agua-azul/

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