Mexico "dirty war" files show death squad's deeds

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Sat Feb-12-05 09:20 PM
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Mexico "dirty war" files show death squad's deeds

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5534630

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican death squads trained in martial arts used bamboo sticks to kill students in a 1971 massacre as part of the government's "dirty war" against leftists, according to
newly-released witness testimony.

The files, obtained by freedom of information group Limac on Saturday, come from a genocide case that prosecutors are building against Luis Echeverria, president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.

Some former members of the 1,000-strong "Falcons" paramilitary squad told prosecutors they had special training in the United States, Japan and Europe, according to Limac officials.

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Sat Feb-12-05 09:29 PM
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1. not surprising considering that was not long after Tlatelolco

Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 09:31 PM by imenja

The 1968 massacre of students in Mexico City: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB10/intro.htm

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