Mexican president says state was main violator of human rights
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS MARCH 24, 2019 / 6:36 PM / UPDATED 23 MINUTES AGO
Mexican president says state was main violator of human rights
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday the state had in the past been the main violator of human rights in the country, as he blamed violence and disappearances on his predecessors neo-liberal economic policies.
There was a time in which the main violator of human rights was the state. It was the violator par excellence of human rights. Thats over, Lopez Obrador said at an event in which his government set out plans to end disappearances in Mexico.
I, as president, and at the same time as commander of the countrys armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico, he said.
Tens of thousands of people are registered as disappeared in Mexico, where fighting between drug cartels and their clashes with security forces have been blamed for more than 200,000 deaths since late 2006.
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