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Weekly Report - 13 August 2015 (WR-15-32)

MEXICO: Is Tanhuato the new Tlatlaya?

In any prolonged and violent conflict it is often very difficult to establish facts because of the “fog of war”. This has certainly been the case in Mexico. There have been repeated clashes between rival drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) and between the DTOs and the security forces. A disturbing possibility is that the security forces, including the army and the federal police, may have carried out extra-judicial executions and pretended the victims were killed in confrontations. Until now the most notorious of these cases is believed to have happened in Tlatlaya, Estado de México, in June 2014, when 22 alleged cartel members were killed after supposedly ambushing an army unit: based on the testimony of a survivor, prosecutors now believe the majority of the victims were in fact executed after they surrendered. Now, it is being reported that something worse happened in Tanhuato, Michoacán state, in May this year.

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