NGO Accuses Mexican Forces of Violating Human Rights in Anti-Drug Campaign Nancy Caouette - Turkish Weekly
go to original June 8, 2016

Mexico killings: Report finds crimes against humanity (Al Jazeera English)

The Mexican government must promptly address the human right crisis the country currently faces, several Mexican and international nongovernmental organizations (NGO) reported this week.

In a 228-page report spanning nine years, Open Society Justice Initiative, a New York-based NGO, and other Mexican groups maintained that they found "reasonable grounds" that crimes against humanity were committed by authorities and the Zetas drug cartel.

According to the report, the war on the drugs launched in December 2006 by the former Mexican President Felipe Calderon has killed more than 150,000 victims and led to 580,000 forced disappearances.

"The deployment of armed forces in Mexico to submit the criminal crime members has resulted in extra-legal executions in an almost complete impunity,” said James A. Goldstone, executive director of Open Society.

Goldstone said the purpose of the report was not to "bring the case in front of the International Criminal Court,” but to bring to trial in Mexican courts the perpetrators of the crimes.

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