By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

              OCSINGO, Mexico (AP) -- More than 2,000 Indians in Mexico's restive southern
              state of Chiapas marched Monday to protest a watered-down Indian rights bill
              passed recently by Congress.

              The protesters marched down the same streets where the Zapatista rebels clashed
              with federal troops during a short-lived January 1994 revolt in the name of Indian
              rights.

              Open warfare lasted only two weeks, but the guerrilla presence in the jungle
              canyons has led to repeated clashes between pro-government forces and dissident
              groups emboldened by the revolt.

              Passage of a bill granting Mexico's Indians broad new rights was one of the three
              conditions established by the Zapatistas as a condition to renewing peace talks with
              the government.

              But the Senate made significant revisions in the bill before both houses of Congress
              passed it last month. The Zapatistas broke off all contacts with the government and
              called on Indian groups across the country to march against the bill, which they said
              was gutted by the Senate changes.

              ``We will continue fighting for a real Indian law which takes into account our rights
              and the autonomy of our natural resources,'' said Maria Nunez, a Chol Indian
              woman marching Monday.

              ``Legislators betrayed their duty, which is to legislate as the people say and not how
              they (the legislators) want,'' she said.

              The Zapatistas want regional autonomy for Indian areas on issues like native
              languages, as well as traditional government and law based on councils of elders or
              village assemblies rather than federal standards.

              Congress' version would weaken the proposed autonomy and subject laws based
              on Indian customs to approval by state legislatures.

              Many of the protesters came from Zapatista rebel strongholds in the Lacandon and
              Las Canadas jungle areas.