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'Police Hit Men' Kidnapped 43 Mexican Youth, 28 Others Cut Into Pieces, Burned

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In a Mexican town ravaged by kidnappings and murders, an official has called police there “hit men” cooperating with organized crime. Criminals’ tactics used in the disappearances are similar to those taught at the military facility School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia where the United States is training Latin Americans to commit terror rather than foster human rights.

 

We now know that at least 28 more people were killed around that time… tortured, cut into pieces, and burned before being buried outside of Iguala. - Media Co-op

 

“I wouldn’t call these police, ‘police.’ I would call them hit men,” Mexico’s federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam said about Iguala police officers.

 

Other authorities have also accused the Iguala mayor, José Luis Abarca, of cooperating with organized crime. Abarca is now in hiding with his wife.

 

PHOTO: Police linked to missing Mexican youth intensifies human rights campaign. Credit: School of the Americas Watch.

 

The town of Iguala made international news last week after mass graves containing remains of 28 charred human bodies were found following the recent disappearance of 43 students prompted violent clashes between students and police there.

 

“Recall that they were kidnapped by police and nothing has been heard from them since,” says School of the America’s Watch on Facebook. “The Mexican government and mainstream media are relying heavily on the narrative that the responsible party in these crimes is a “drug gang” called Guerreros Unidos. That narrative distorts and distracts from despicable state crimes by pointing to organized crime and corrupt cops as being solely responsible.”

 

To demystify official claims that “are (as usual) finding great echo in the media” and to “bring folks up to date on ongoing acts of resistance in Mexico,” SOA Watch referred the reader to the following from Media Co-op article:

 

On the day the students were detained by police before also being disappeared by them, six people were killed by gunshot wounds when cops opened fire on various vehicles. There are now ample survivors who have bravely told media what took place that day, and they’re not talking about attacks by Guerreros Unidos or some other crime group. They describe how police fired directly on groups clearly identified as students. Here’s a snippet from an excellent piece by Vice Mexico:

 

‘When it started, one of us said, ‘Don’t be afraid, friends, they are firing to the sky,’ Mario went on. ‘The buses stopped, and that’s when I saw the bullets were coming toward us.’

 

The young men began panicking. Mario and three other friends got off, each also wearing the red jacket of their Ayotzinapa uniforms. They saw gunfire coming from men inside two municipal police cruisers. (Emphasis added)

 

Trying to defend himself, Mario threw rocks in their direction. As bullets kept hitting the buses, they ran to the first bus.

 

‘But then we saw that they were ten police cars, surrounding us. We had no where to run and no rocks to defend ourselves,’ Mario said.

 

‘One of the bullets hit Aldo, who fell right next to me. I saw how a pool of blood formed. I yelled at them that they already hit one of us, and they began firing more,’ he went on. ‘If you moved, they fired, if you yelled or talked, they fired.

 

‘They fired so much, from in front, and from behind, that us, the ones who got off, we hid in between the first and second bus.’

 

Yesterday it was revealed that the 9-10 mass graves that were found outside of Iguala almost two weeks ago do not contain the bodies of the 43 missing students. We now know that at least 28 more people were killed around that time, they were tortured, cut into pieces, and burned before being buried outside of Iguala.

 

We must now speak of various massacres in Iguala (not to mention mass graves containing nine bodies found in April and another nine in May of this year on the outskirts of the city).

 

But the government of Mexico’s involvement in these crimes goes beyond police actions and their collaboration with paramilitary groups in the region. It was reported that authorities also impeded the work of an Argentine Forensic team tasked with identifying the remains in the graves.

 

‘There were two days of agony and complications, and on the third day things were normalized,’ [according to a lawyer on the scene].

 

Because of the loss of those initial hours, they arrived at the first five graves–out of which they took 28 bodies–once the exhumations were already done. ‘They didn’t have the opportunity to participate in that.’

 

The mayor of Iguala, who belongs to the sham leftist PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution), is on the run with his wife. Note that governor of Guerrero is also a member of the PRD.

 

SOA terror tactics learned are transferable, that is, a Latin American soldier trained to use them can transfer his learned skills to others. While the Mexican officials involved in the Iguala human rights abuses might not have been directly trained at SOA, they have learned to use the same type of terror on innocent civilians for political gain.

 

“These abuses have been going in since the 60s,” says Paul Ylh Sr, on SOA’s Facebook page. “When will the tax payer be awaken to see our tax dollar being use for mass murders in all of Latin America? When?”

 

Slated to speak at this year’s November Vigil to close the School of the America’s is Javier Barrera Santa from Colombia.

 

Javier leads ASFADDES (Association of Families of the Detained and Disappeared), Medellin, Colombia, and coordinates the regional board on enforced disappearance. Javier advocates for individual families whose loved ones forcibly disappeared, traveling throughout Colombia facilitating healing workshops to commemorate lost loved ones, and works with other human rights leaders to shape policy and legislation dealing with enforced disappearance and other victims of Colombia’s civil conflict.

 

He carries out his human rights work under conditions of threat and harassment. He was featured this year in Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network.

 

Led by the man known as the American Nelson Mandela, holy man Fr. Roy Bourgeois, thousands have gathered at the gates of Fort Benning every November for nonviolent demonstration since the first anniversary of the 1989 SOA graduate-led massacre of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America in El Salvador.

 

More: Highly Disturbing Leaked Photos Of ‘Ship And Dump’ Children. Whose Fault? Stunning Answer

 

SOA Watch calls for the closure of the institute, that “exports the militarization of police, perpetuates coups, torture, extrajudicial killings, and human rights abuses in the face of social and political problems,” the organization says. Bob Harris in the Humanist says SOA/WHINSEC serves one purpose: “To sustain and promote a wealthy, elite ruling class.”

 

More: Prelude to independence: the oppressed, the priest but not SOA (Part IV): Courage to admit

 

SOA/WHINSEC made headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon released SOA training manuals advocating torture, extortion and execution. Among its graduates are at least 11 dictators plus leaders of infamous Central American death squads.

SOA/WHINSEC graduates are linked to the Honduran military coup and repression campaign against social movements there, among other humanitarian crises.

Learn more: Visit the “Featured Speakers” section of SOA Watch’s November Vigil website.



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    • Deborah Dupre

      Must not forget or dismiss lethal and transferable human rights abuses taught at Fort Benning’s SOA that Americans fund with their tax dollars.

    • paul brown

      Maybe a reverse immigration of American people of conscience to Mexico would have a positive effect.

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