20, 21 and December 22 - 2010, to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the slaughter of Acteal.
Road up from San Cristobal de las Casas , nearly two hours they separate us from our destination. Upon arrival, a fabric banner that hangs on the route adelantito of the Pillar of Shame announces "13 years saving memory and hope." The call for these 3 days of activities for the commemoration of this anniversary also reminds us that in the Maya cosmology the 13 means the union of heaven and earth. There are 13 levels to ascend to heaven. And with 13 candles praying for the elderly.
But why are we here?
The land was declared sacred Acteal in December 2009 site of human consciousness, for inspiration of all people who fight for justice.
To this people and all of those who sympathize with him, 13 years is also the impunity of the slaughter. Represent our living memory.
A December 20 but 13 years ago, the community began a fast calling for the restoration of peace and an end to harassment by the paramilitaries. Two days after the slaughter occurs in which 45 women and 4 men and unborn children are killed in hand of those same paramilitary weapons. Since then, in this sacred place is offered gore. Like every year, the meeting is against forgetting, by the Justice and Truth .
celebration and reminder of Acteal martyrs in the community where the incident occurred.
We share a reason, that this crime will not go unpunished. We also hope.
The inaugural event of this meeting was a festival that celebrates and makes visible to the organized towns not seeking to "destabilize the government" as they like to say the mass media, but rewrite his own history in a creative way. That story they were forced to shut for centuries.
During the first day we take time out to share, meet, meet again. The path of the sun into the sunset is accompanied by the continuous arrival of people. Gradually the surrounding area are filled with color and aromas that come from that nature so eloquently in these latitudes. At dusk on the audience, begin the festival. With its Welcome Song in Tzotzil and English Choir welcomes us Acteal with the rock band Tzotzil Tzevul Sak.
the activities during these three days they wanted to (re) created in each of us a way of life that is in our knowledge in our hearts.
Almost unnoticed flow going through moments where feelings of brotherhood, true union in harmony and peace that give us their smiles reflecting the pain also. A pain in the force that reflects the strength of their struggle. "We have to ask anyone's permission to live free in our own territory. "
express the joy of those who listen, but also our commitment.
The festival's first day was followed by the Meeting Weaving resistance and autonomy versus Counterinsurgency and Unit. Joining other organized peoples of Chiapas and Atenco colleagues, among more. And in Acteal you live elsewhere so often dream: to share experiences to feel we are not alone, we intertwine and build together the autonomy of our peoples.
At the end of the conference, a new December 22 brought together individuals from the community and many other parts of Mexico and the world to conclude the commemoration of the 13th anniversary of the slaughter. We are part of the memory of a people who never forgets and yet bears no grudge. A people that broke their chains with imagination, Justito there that "can not control our consciousness."
A people who, as we sang the young Bach, knows that just is not enough to pray and gets up every day, to walk the path they want to live!
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