Victor Ballinas
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, March 7, 2022, p. eleven
Displaced people from nine states, including Guerrero, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, Chiapas and Michoacán, demanded that the Senate approve the draft of the Internal Forced Displacement Law, which has been frozen for two years.
Nestora Salgado, from Morena and who received those affected, reported that the ruling commissions will listen to them at work tables before the discussion.
Those affected asked to classify forced displacement as a crime and denounced that organized crime expels them from their communities to keep their lands and natural resources.
About thirty complainants, accompanied by the director of the José María Morelos y Pavón Regional Human Rights Center in Guerrero, Teodomira Rosales, requested that the commissions that will rule on the minutes include the victims in the dialogue.
They urged the legislators to discuss this law and that in the new one indicate the responsibility of the federal and state governments to provide security and guarantees
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Rosales stated that It is urgent that progress is made in the approval of the law, but that they take into account the proposals of the displaced themselves, that they expose what they require and need, since they experienced this problem firsthand. Here are people displaced from their communities, from nine states in the country who had to leave due to threats from organized crime
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The activist added: We hope that this message reaches all corners of the country, the mountains, the sierra, the forests, municipalities, neighborhoods, cities where there are displaced people who are afraid to report their cases because they are threatened by criminals who take away their water. , plots and hectares for their richness in natural resources
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He insisted that there are thousands of displaced people in the country, but they are afraid to speak because they are threatened by criminals. I hope they listen to this message so that they make this problem visible and attend the forums and that their right as victims be recognized
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The representative of the Leonardo Bravo community reported that in November 2018 they were displaced by 3,000 armed men.
