After Alleged Killings: Investigations of Soldiers in Mexico

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At the act in the northeastern state of Nuevo Laredo, the evidence pointed to an “extrajudicial execution,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday. The media published video footage from a surveillance camera of the alleged massacre on Tuesday. It showed how soldiers overpowered the already disarmed men after a chase and how they probably manipulated the crime scene after shots were fired.

“I have been informed and measures are already being taken,” Lopez Obrador said at his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Such a thing is unacceptable. Eleven soldiers were involved in the incident, according to a report from the Spanish-language American television channel Univision. Local security services in the state of Tamaulipas initially spoke of a gunfight between armed criminals and soldiers.

In Mexico, the military has been deployed extensively in the fight against drug cartels and violent crime syndicates for more than 15 years. According to human rights organizations, this has led to numerous human rights violations and an increase in the number of murders in the Latin American country by 126 million people. According to official statistics, nearly 180,000 murders have been committed in the past five years alone.

(SDA)

Source: Blick