Sisters Adriana and Virginia Ortiz García, aged 35 and 45, respectively, were attacked by two armed men when they got out of a taxi.
Two women members of the Triqui Unifying Struggle Movement (MULT) were shot dead on Wednesday, November 6th, in the state capital.
Sisters Adriana and Virginia Ortiz García, aged 35 and 45, respectively, originally from San Juan Copala, were attacked by two armed men when they got out of the taxi they were traveling in on the streets of the Francisco I. Madero neighborhood where their home is located, confirmed the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca.
The attackers, who were riding a motorcycle, shot at the victims, whose bodies were left lying on the sidewalk.
The attack occurred on Revolución Street between Libertad and Venustiano Carranza streets, located behind what was once the Oaxaca train station.
The bullets hit the driver of the taxi from the Alameda site with the economic number 00-089, where the sisters were traveling, who was taken to a hospital for medical attention.
Emilia Ortiz García, sister of the victims and defender of the human rights of the Triqui nation, explained that her sisters went to sell their crafts in the Alameda de León, in the first square of the city of Oaxaca, and clarified that they had no relation to the problems faced by some groups in the Triqui area.
In light of the armed attack, the Oaxaca prosecutor’s office deployed a multidisciplinary team to carry out the investigations, headed by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Attention to High Impact Crimes, which carried out the first inquiries on site and is in charge of the ministerial work to define the lines of investigation around the case.
The body responsible for the administration of justice is conducting the investigation through a multidisciplinary team specialized in gender perspective, context analysis, human rights, and interculturality, as this is important for the investigations, since, in high-impact crimes such as this, it is essential to reconstruct the context of the victims in order to have the necessary elements to clarify the fact.
In addition, it reiterated its commitment to “conduct an exhaustive, scientific and comprehensive investigation that involves transversal lines of investigation that broadly consider all possible motives, in addition to the fact that this will avoid re-victimization, a situation in which the prosecution pays special attention.”
The organization also offered to create communication channels to provide comprehensive and permanent support to indirect victims, and to provide immediate assistance measures by international standards on the matter. Therefore, through a team of specialists, it provides legal and psycho-emotional care at first, in addition to carrying out all the investigative actions required to have certainty about the ongoing process of justice.
On October 8, in the communities of El Rastrojo and Tierra Blanca, Copala, belonging to the municipality of Santiago Juxtlahuaca, in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, located about six hours from the state capital, teachers and students from the local public primary school and kindergarten took shelter in their classrooms and recorded an armed attack that lasted for more than three hours.
On that occasion, the Movimiento Unificador de Lucha Triqui (MULT) blamed the armed attack on members of the Movimiento Unificador de Lucha Triqui Independiente (MULTI), with whom it is fighting for control of the area. The attacks targeted educational centers.
Source: OEM
