Extrajudicial Executions on Cartel Ranch Leaves Deep Scars in Mexican Town Lizbeth Diaz and Frank Jack Daniel - Reuters
go to original August 23, 2016

Mexico Police Arbitrarily Executed Gang Members (PressTV/PigMine)

The small town of Ocotlan in western Mexico was hard hit by an ambush a government body now admits was an act of police abuse, having lost dozens of its young men who joined a powerful drug gang for money and adventure but instead found an early grave.

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said last week that federal police arbitrarily executed at least 22 of 42 suspected gang members killed on a drug cartel ranch more than a year ago and then moved bodies to fake a gun battle.

It may have been an act of revenge. Together with the shocking abduction in 2014 of 43 trainee teachers, who have not been seen since corrupt police apparently handed them over to drug gang henchmen, it was one of the worst abuses blamed on police in a decade of grisly violence.

... After the May 22, 2015 massacre the mourning families kept quiet. They did not approach rights groups to help them prove police had executed their sons and husbands. Many cited fear of reprisals, from the cartel or the security forces.

Thursday’s ruling came as a surprise. It was a rare case in which the government-funded and only semi-autonomous human rights commission brought succour to victims of violence who were too cowed to ask anybody for help.

Now some feel emboldened.

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