...around 180 members of the Mining Union Don Napoleón Gómez Sada...forcefully destroyed the camp which landowners of the Ejido La Sierrita and workers from the Local 309 of the National Mining Union have maintained outside the La Platosa mine for the last three months...The protestors created the camp in July an effort to defend their human rights to land autonomy as communal landowners and, as workers, to their freedom of association...members of the Gómez Sada Union arrived in six buses, including a bus adorned with the logo of Excellon Resources...They were armed with sticks and rocks...The protestors made repeated requests to federal and state officials to stop the aggressors but federal and local officials present took no action to stop the intervention.