Aguas Blancas massacre

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The Aguas Blancas Massacre is a massacre that took place on the 28th of July, 1995, in Aguas Blancas, Guerrero where, according to the official version, seventeen farmers were killed and 21 injured. Members of the Organización Campesina de la Sierra Sur (South Mountain Range Farmer Organization) were en route towards Atoyac de Alvarez a protest march demanding the release of Gilberto Romero Vázquez, a peasant activist arrested more than a month before (and has not appeared ever since). They were also marching to demand drinking water, schools, hospitals, roads, among other things. According to survivors, they were ambushed by the motorized police and several were shot point blank. Weapons were subsequently placed in the dead farmer's hands and the police said they acted in self-defense.

[edit] Planning of the massacre

Allegedly, the ex-secretary general of Guerrero, José Rubén Robles Catalán, and Gustavo Olea Godoy, head of the state police were waiting in a helicopter some meters away, and took off when the first shot was fired. The governor had before had a conversation with María de la Luz Núñez Ramos, saying measures had been taken so that the group would not reach Atoyac, and that they would stop them by whatever means necessary. After the massacre he had another conversation with her saying "They came for war, and war they got, are we, or are we not the authority". However, it is said to have been planned by the governor Rubén Figueroa Alcocer