1.   However, it seems increasingly to have been confined to Indian peasants exploited by non-Indian landlords.

2.   Back then, under a system approaching slavery, Indian peasants hauled precious woods, coffee, fruit, sugar cane, tobacco and chicle out of the land.

3.   Eleven Indian peasants were gunned down by soldiers in a refugee resettlement camp called Xaman in the rain forest in central Guatemala.

4.   He said the rebels have adopted a strategy of harassing troops in order to provoke a violent response that could further radicalize Indian peasants.

5.   They come here from villages miles away, Indian peasants fleeing for their lives.

6.   Zedillo and other government officials tried to paint the rebel leadership as professional revolutionaries with little connection to the Indian peasants they command.

7.   Both the Chiapas state and federal governments have reiterated their commitment to peacefully addressing the root causes of the three-year uprising by poor Indian peasants.

8.   But political overtones have been evident in sporadic killings of Indian peasants in some heavily Indian regions, particularly the western state of Guerrero.

9.   For years, Indian peasants were ignored and feared to speak up.

10.   For three decades he has fought for the rights of Indian peasants in southern Mexico, advocating negotiation instead of violence.