For a class-conscious, democratic and revolutionary line in the service of
the workers and peoples!
For a class-conscious, democratic and revolutionary line in the service of
the workers and peoples!
This 30 August
On 10 May 2018, Dr. Ernesto Sernas García, professor at the Benito Juárez
Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO), essayist, researcher, lecturer,
activist and defender of the rights of the people, was disappeared. Comrade
Sernas García was a legal advisor to the Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo (Red Sun
People’s Current) and defended 23 militants imprisoned in high security prisons
accused of terrorism and carrying explosives reserved for use by the Mexican
army.
The masterful defence led by comrade Sernas García allowed the release and
subsequent acquittal of the CP-Red Sun militants as well as two more
co-defendants. This generated deep class hatred among the ruling elites who
ordered this crime against humanity against a revolutionary intellectual.
Since then our comrade has been missing and the position of our
organisation and his family is to demand that he be presented alive.
Throughout these more than four years, CP-Sol Rojo has carried out
countless protest activities, framed within the campaign
#DrSernasPresentaciónConVida. This has been joined by personalities, schools,
cultural institutions, human rights organisations, democratic-revolutionary
organisations and Communist Parties around the world.
As part of these actions in our country, there have been marches, sit-ins,
caravans, rallies, leafleting, graffiti, etc. Activists and friends have raised
his name, his face and his struggle in states such as Oaxaca, Guerrero,
Chiapas, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Mexico State and Mexico City.
In the same vein and in a great show of proletarian internationalism,
revolutionary activists have held rallies, demonstrations and statements in
Mexican consulates and embassies, as well as conferences and actions to spread
information in countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, the United
States, Canada, Galicia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Rojava, among others.
The United Nations through the Committee Against Enforced Disappearances
(CED) issued Urgent Action No. 540/2018 and later the opinion of a group of
experts; the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International
Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Front Line Defenders have also
pronounced themselves on the matter.
However, despite all the legal remedies and political efforts undertaken so
far, the old landlord-bureaucratic state, through the federal and state
governments, exercises dilatory and revictimising practices against Dr. Sernas
and his family.
In this sense, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Search Commission,
together with the Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office, the State Search
Commission and the Oaxaca Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office, maintain a policy of
simulation with files where bureaucracy and procedural inactivity are the
common factor, impeding access to truth and justice.
That is why this August 30th, in the framework of the International Day of
the Detained-Disappeared, the Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo and the family of
comrade Dr. Ernesto Sernas García will once again take to the streets, to shout
his name loudly, to paint his face on the walls and to make it clear that we
neither forgive nor forget this crime against humanity that is part of the war
against the people that has so far left more than 100,000 people disappeared in
our country.
We call on sister organisations in Mexico and other countries to join us
this August 30, from their geographies, their ways and their capacities, in
this demand for justice against the old and rotten Mexican state. The
international campaign #DrSernasPresentaciónConVida continues.
Ernesto Sernas García… presentation
alive!
Because alive they took him, alive we
want him!
Neither forgiving nor forgetting!
Punish the perpetrators and masterminds!
¡Defender la vida y los derechDefend the
lives and rights of the people!
Combatively:
Family of Dr. Ernesto Sernas García
People’s Current Red Sun
Oaxaca, Mexico. August 2022
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