▲ Relatives of victims painted slogans against the Army.Photo Pablo Ramos
Jessica Xanthomilla
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 18, 2022, p. 8
Feminist groups and mothers of victims of torture and disappearance by alleged elements of the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), demonstrated to express their rejection of the militarization of the country
; this, after the Congress of the Union approved reforms so that the aforementioned agency takes operational and administrative control of the National Guard and the Chamber of Deputies voted in favor of expanding the participation of the Army in public security tasks until 2028.
it was the army
, painted in large white letters on the pavement of Paseo de la Reforma, around the former Glorieta a Colón. Message that was accompanied with the name of several victims who have been killed or disappeared allegedly by the military.
Also, on the esplanade of the Monument to the Revolution, members of Mexiro AC, Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Quiero, among others, painted the legend in red and black: The militarized State is a State crime
.
We are here to name and bring to memory those who have suffered crimes by the Army, because they are our most powerful argument against this imposition.
said Laura Kabata, mother of a victim who was tortured in 2009 by the military in Chihuahua.
In the also called Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan, he narrated: In Ciudad Juárez, when he was only 17 years old, my son was kidnapped along with his friend and transferred to the Sedena facilities. There, for five days he was violated, tortured, beaten, they were forcing them to sign that they had kidnapped a councilwoman. Failure to do so led them to suffer the worst harassment, including massive sexual violence.
.
In a statement, he emphasized that as long as there is no full justice and they do not pay for their crimes, military honor will not exist
.
Among the names of victims that were written in the roundabout is also that of Heidi Mariana Pérez, four years old, shot to death presumably by the military on August 31. Meanwhile, at the Monument to the Revolution they recalled some of the massacres in which elements of the Army are involved.
