NGOs Ask International Criminal Court for Assessment of Coahuila Case Associated Press
go to original July 11, 2017

In March, 2011 Los Zetas Cartel reigned a week of terror in Piedras Negras and los Cinco Manantiales which includes: Allende, Morelos, Zaragoza, Villa Union and Nava. (Borderland Beat)

Dozens of civil society organizations have presented a report to the International Criminal Court in The Hague in hopes it will lead to an investigation of possible crimes against humanity in northern Mexico.

The report focuses on the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. It documents crimes including the use of a prison in the city of Piedras Negras by the Zetas drug cartel to dispose of its enemies.

Olga Guzman of the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights said Tuesday there is “reasonable evidence” of a deliberate policy of systematic and generalized violence.

The court has opened only one such preliminary investigation in Latin America, in Colombia. The Mexican government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

See the original at The Washington Times

Related: Roman Catholic Bishop of the State of Coahuila Says Government Collaborates with Organized Crime (Latin American Herald Tribune)

Related: How DEA Informers Sparked a Massacre of Anyone with the Wrong Last Name in the State of Coahuila (The Daily Beast)

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