The Justice
Initiative report affirms that the government's use of indiscriminate
force and impunity is an integral part of the state's policy.
Mexican
officials and organized crime organizations will for the very first
time be accused by an international group of committing crimes
against humanity, in a new report released Tuesday by the Open
Society Initiative.
“Within
the framework of international law, extrajudicial killings, forced
disappearances and torture represent crimes against humanity and
these three crimes have been committed repeatedly since the Mexican
government began its war with drug traffickers in December 2006,”
human rights activist Jose Antonio Guevara told teleSUR.
Gevara is
head of the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human
Rights, an NGO which along with other civil society groups have
helped to create the new report titled "Undeniable Atrocities:
Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico."
The report
collects four years of research and demonstrates a pattern of
indiscriminate force and impunity which, the authors argue, has
become an integral part of the Mexican state's policy.
“Extrajudicial
killings, forced disappearances and torture cases are not isolated
and they are being investigated one by one... Authorities do not
recognize the problem they are facing and remain within the idea that
this is part of their battle against drug violence,” Gevara
added.
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