Chiapas Massacre Suspects Freed From Prison

theGlobalReport
19 August 2009

Twenty suspects in a massacre that claimed the lives of 45 members of a Tzotzil indigenous community in December 1997 in Chiapas, Mexico have been freed from prison. The move has provoked outrage in the community of Acteal that was targeted in the massacre.
More than 50 paramilitaries are believed to have attacked 45 indigenous people – including pregnant women and children – belonging to the religious community Las Abejas while they were praying.