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I was with my girlfriend at the time in Chiapas, in Acteal, a village that suffered the violence of the clash between Zapatistas and the Mexican government. Half of the village is Zapatista. The other half calls themselves Bees: pacifists, different form the Zapatistas, even if they want the same, but not wanting to use violence to achieve it by any means. In Xmas 1997 they all gathered in church praying for peace when paramilitaries came to the village, and shot the people in church. Seventeen died and caused such a trauma to the rest of the community.
We went just for visiting, staying few days and learn what was going on. But we had little to do… we had…
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