MEXICO CITY — The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) recognized the resumption of dialogue between the federal government and the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) and called upon the parties to exercise responsibility, civility, patriotism and respect for the dignity of people, and make the best effort possible to achieve the construction of agreements within the framework of the law to overcome the existing disputes.
It emphasized the need for the government to have the sensitivity to hear and address the legitimate social demands that are submitted, that people respect the laws and preserve the conditions that enable peaceful coexistence in society.
“The claim of a right or any legitimate interest cannot be made with the use of violence, that affects rights of others or ignores the law and democratic institutions of our country,” the CNDH said in a statement.
With regard to the presence and intervention that the National Commission has had in Oaxaca, the CNDH said that with knowledge of the events in Nochixtlán on June 19, staff were deployed to integrate the research of these events and monitor the situation that exists in the state where there is an existing dispute between the federal government and the CNTE.
The CNDH staff is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of visiting inspectors, doctors, experts, psychologists, criminologists, support staff and the head of the agency, who in addition to maintaining a permanent presence in Nochixtlán has gone to various locations to talk with people who were at the scene.
It also registered several procedures related to the events of June 19, such as a visual inspection of the scene, where it collected ballistic evidence, took photographs, geo-referenced, and collected various testimonies.
Among the measures undertaken by CNDH staff, they witnessed three autopsies and collaborated with data on three other people that perished in a confrontation with authorities.