PBI-Mexico accompanied relatives of Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Cruz demand progress at 12th meeting of search commission in Mexico City
On July 3, the Cerezo Committee posted: “Nadin Reyes Amaya, family member of Edmundo Reyes Amaya, announces the upcoming arrival of family members, human rights organizations, lawyers, social and political organizations, OHCHR [Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights], Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project for the 12th meeting of the Special Search Commission to find Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sanchez and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, detained and disappeared on May 25, 2007, in Oaxaca.”
The Cerezo Committee also posted this video of the comments made after the 12th meeting had concluded.
That same day, El Heraldo reported: “In the framework of the twelfth meeting of the State Search Commission (CEB) that is taking place in Mexico City, members of the National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS), demanded progress in the search and location of the revolutionaries Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez who disappeared more than 15 years ago in the state of Oaxaca.”
Cuarto Poder de Chiapas adds: “Members of the FNLS carried out a blockade-flyer for several hours on [July 3], on the Altamirano-Ocosingo highway section, at the height of the town of Las Perlas. The demonstration was to demand progress in the search and location of the revolutionaries Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez.”
Front Line Defenders has explained: “The National Front for Socialism is a grassroots movement working to denounce and publicly condemn violations of human rights perpetrated by the Mexican government, specifically those related to enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions and political prisoners.”
Background
The Cerezo Committee has explained: “On May 25, 2007, in the city of Oaxaca, Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez, members of the Popular Democratic Revolutionary Party [PDPR] – Popular Revolutionary Army [EPR] were arrested and disappeared by various police and military groups.”
NACLA has noted: “Mexico’s ‘other’ armed movement [the other being the Zapatista Army of National Liberation – EZLN], the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), made its first public appearance [on] June 28 [1996], at a memorial service in the state of Guerrero commemorating the massacre of 17 campesinos by state police the year before.”
While founded in Guerrero, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2007: “[The EPR] now appears to be rooted in the adjacent state of Oaxaca, whose social inequities and heavy-handed governing style have fed several militant movements.
Proceso has reported: “On May 6, 2019, the Fourth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters in Mexico City issued a sentence that recognized ‘the serious violation of human rights’ against Popular Revolutionary Army members ‘by agents of the Mexican State’.”
That decision was appealed by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Secretariat of National Defence (Sedena).
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared notes: “On August 10, 2022, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation issued the ruling in favor of the victims, Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez and Edmundo Reyes Amaya.”
Photo: PBI-Mexico at the August 10, 2022, ruling.
Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanies the Cerezo Committee who will be part of the Special Search Commission, October 26, 2022.
A Special Search Commission was then established on November 3, 2022. A first objective was to develop a comprehensive search plan.
Photo: PBI-Mexico at the formation of the International Solidarity Committee with the families and accompanying organizations, December 8, 2022.
In September 2023, La Jornada reported that the relatives went to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and demanded that the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (FGJ) comply with the decision of the Supreme Court (SCJN) and draw up a comprehensive plan that includes the review of all military installations where Edmundo and Gabriel are presumed to have been illegally detained and then deprived of their lives.
The 10th meeting of the Special Search Commission (CEB) took place in April 2024.
Photo: PBI-Mexico at the 10th session, April 4, 2024.
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