Are you surprised?
The Mexican army is responsible for a long list of disappearances and murders, along with the torture of 25 Tijuana police officers accused of corruption, according to a new report by London-based human rights group Amnesty International.
“The report, which meshes with earlier examinations by Human Rights Watch and Mexican human rights groups, accuses soldiers of torturing 25 police officers in Tijuana in March to coerce them to confess to links to organized crime,” The New York Times reported. “It says a man arrested by soldiers in October 2008 in Ciudad Juárez was found dead of a cerebral hemorrhage. It says two brothers from Ciudad Juárez were led away from soldiers the next month and never seen again.”
The Secretaria de Gobernacion issued a statement, acknowledging the AI report (the Tijuana tortures are only a small part of it, but given my U.S. source, are the most likely to lead a news report, being a border community), but saying that the excesses were “temporary” and motivated by civil authorities”… in other words, we didn’t do it and promise never to do it again.
The security of the people is a necessary condition for development and effective protection of human rights. With the objective of recuperating peace and tranquility for all our people, the Executive decided to resort to the legitimate use of force, to rescue public spaces which have been taken by delinquents,” the statement said.
In other words, we’re destroying human rights to save them.
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