Mexico pressured to resolve military slayings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France Presse

Mexico pressured to resolve military slayings

Agence France Presse

Posted at 07/01/2015 8:00 AM



MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexico's government came under renewed pressure Tuesday to resolve the case of the alleged extrajudicial killings of at least 12 gang suspects by soldiers a year ago.

Amnesty International called for an "exhaustive and impartial" investigation into the killing of 22 suspects in a clash with troops in the central Mexico municipality of Tlatlaya on June 30, 2014.

The investigation must "bring to justice all the people responsible, including military officers," the global human rights group said in a statement. "It is fundamental that the families, as well as society as a whole, know the truth."

The army initially said that the suspects had died in a shootout inside a warehouse. But the governmental National Human Rights Commission concluded in October that at least 12 of them were "arbitrarily" killed after surrendering.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. The Mexican military gets away with murder. Literally.

[MisterP]

2. perhaps Peter Dale Scott's most disturbing finding in his famous "Cociane Politics"

isn't the massive CIA network of Nazis and druglords but the fact that it was the police and paramilitary connections with the state that made the cartels so violent, rather than anything inherent in the trafficking

I think his words were "the connection makes the kingpin," not vice-versa