User:Sponge37/Chiapas conflict

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 * 1) The counterinsurgent methods designed and implemented by the Mexican government in 1994 in the context of an internal armed conflict had the objective of disrupting and dissolving the resistance of the EZLN. This provoked large amounts of forced displacement, threats and harassment by the Mexican army upon indigenous villages. This displacement has intensified since the year 1996, and various paramilitary groups have been responsible for crimes against the indigenous population of Chiapas. An example of this is the Acteal Massacre, where on December 22, 1997, 45 people and four unborn children were murdered in the camp of Los Naranjos, Chenalhó. Extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, forced displacement, torture, threats of violence and death, intimidation, arbitrary deprivations of liberty and destruction of property were some of the violations inflicted on the human rights of the people of the region by paramilitary groups. Remnants of the counterinsurgency strategy enacted by the Mexican state in the Altos and Northern regions of Chiapas in the 90s continues in the form of illegally armed groups which learned from those methods employed. These groups are sustained by the criminal organizations of the region, and powerful groups which react against the interests of the local population, with impunity from the municipal, state, and federal governments. Forced disappearances continue to permeate the socio-political landscape surrounding the Chiapas conflict. The generalized violence in the region in the last decade has forced many to leave their homes. Many Chiapans continue to be victims of violence, abduction, or be threatened by those affiliated with organized crime. From 2010 to 2021, there were approximately 14,476 people displaced in the state of Chiapas.