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Weekly Report - 17 March 2016 (WR-16-11)
MEXICO: Military implicated in new rights abuse cases
Mexico’s defence ministry (Sedena) and navy (Semar) revealed this week that soldiers and marines had been implicated in two separate new suspected cases of human rights abuses. The revelations have stoked further concerns about just how widespread such cases have become across Mexico as a result of the continued reliance on the federal security forces to combat the twin scourges of drug trafficking and organised crime. With the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto already in the spotlight over its human rights record, the mounting cases of abuse by the federal security forces have the potential to undermine its national security strategy.
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