Victims of Repression in State of Oaxaca Condemn Senate's 'Cover-Up' Report teleSUR
go to original September 2, 2016

Representatives from the Committee of Victims from Nochixtlan, Oaxaca — the town that was the site of a brutal police crackdown that saw eight people killed — say lawmakers tasked with investigating the incident never spoke to them and are demanding Congress strike a new commission.

In a press conference Thursday a spokesperson for the committee said that the Senate's report “favored the voice of the repressors” and ignored the testimony of the victims, La Jornada reported.

Juana Ramon Solis, a member of the Committee of Victims from Nochixtlan, said the Senate commission reached out to her in a tokenistic manner, emailing her days before the final report was due and asking her to speak to them with only a day's notice.

She added that a meeting between the victims of the state repression and the Senate commission never took place, despite claims to the contrary by Senator Mariana Gomez del Campo.

The official investigation into the events of June 19, which saw police use live ammunition against demonstrators, was previously criticized by lawmakers from various leftist parties, who accused lawmakers and the Office of the Attorney General of trying to engage in a cover-up.

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