AG, Mexico Rights Commission Come Up with Different Versions of Tlatlaya Massacre Mexico News Daily
go to original November 11, 2014

The inconsistencies continue to be evident in reports over the Tlatlaya massacre, an event that has faded somewhat from the public eye due to the massacre that followed in Iguala.

What exactly happened in that warehouse in the municipality in the State of Mexico on June 30 has been in doubt from the beginning. National Defense said at the start that members of a criminal organization inside the warehouse had begun shooting at an army patrol, which returned the gunfire.

The 22 suspected cartel members were all killed.

Within a week, an Associated Press (AP) reporter examined the scene of the gunfight and decided the evidence indicated there hadn’t been one. Denials followed. Then AP and the magazine Esquire México published testimony of an eyewitness who said those who died had surrendered to the soldiers, who promptly executed them all.

That’s when the National Human Rights Commission announced its own investigation. And the Defense Secretariat suddenly discovered “irregularities” and “inconsistencies” in its reports and soon after placed the soldiers under arrest.

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