Letter From The EZLN
February 11, 1995 
Chiapas, Mexico

To the people of Mexico
To the national and international press
To the peoples of the world

The Indigenous Clandestine Revolutionary Committee,
General Command of the EZLN

We have made a call to all of our brothers and sisters
of Mexico to detain this genocidal war that the bad
government is waging against us.

The federal government is acting with lies, it is
carrying out a dirty war in our villages.  Yesterday
around noon, 14 helicopters bombed the area around
Morelia and Gamucha, as well as shot artillery fire in
the area under Zapatista control, thousands of federal
soldiers have penetrated into the interior of the
jungle, via Monte Libano, Agua Azul, Santa Lucia, La
Gamucha Champes, San Agustin, Guadalupe Tepeyac and
others.  They are surrounding us with death and ugliness. 
We, the Zapatistas, as troops and civilians, up to this
point, have done everything possible to fall back, but
now we do not have any other option except to defend
ourselves and to defend our villages, thousands of
civilians have left their homes.  

Brothers and sisters, the government of Ernesto Zedillo
is killing us, it is killing children, it is attacking
women and raping them.

We ask the people of Mexico and all the people of the
world to do something to stop this war.

Again we ask you, brothers and sisters, don't leave us
alone.

We will act with dignity.

Liberty, Justice, and Democracy.

Fraternally, 

The Indigenous Clandestine Revolutionary Committee,
General Command of the EZLN

(Translated by Cindy Arnold, NCDM volunteer).