| Town Blames 12-Year-Old's Death on Military Gunfire in Vigilante Dispute Charbell Lucio and Laura Castellanos - VICE News | |
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"When will I see you again, child — when?" a mother wailed as she clutched a humble casket in a small community near the Pacific coast of Michoacan, Mexico.
Inside the casket lay the body of Edilberto Reyes, a 12-year-old boy with signs of a gunshot wound to the face still visible.
Locals here in the municipality of Aquila say he is the victim of indiscriminate gunfire from Mexican soldiers during a confrontation with protesters blocking a highway on Sunday, July 19, amid ongoing violence in Michoacan.
If fully confirmed, the boy's death would be the latest in a string of damaging incidents of military use of force against civilians in the last year in Mexico.
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