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August 19, 2016

Mexican Federal Police Accused of Covering Up Human Rights Violations
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In Mexico, the country's National Human Rights Commission has said
federal police killed at least 22 people on a ranch last year before
moving the bodies and planting guns to support the official account that
the deaths happened in a gun battle. One police officer was killed in
the confrontation, which took place in the state of Michoacán. Federal
police have been implicated in other mass killings in the past two
years. The government has said the dead were suspected members of a drug
cartel. The commission said officers also tortured at least two
suspects.
Topics:Mexico

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