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From: "Dana Aldea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Universal,CNDH Report describes police brutality in Atenco,Oct 17 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:34:35 +0200 Report describes brutality of police Wire services / El Universal October 17, 2006 In a report released Monday on the violent confrontation between police and villagers in San Salvador Atenco, State of Mexico, last May, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said that 207 individuals were subjected to cruel treatment, 145 were arrested arbitrarily and 26 women were sexually abused. The report also blamed the deaths of two people on state police and criticized the National Migration Institute (INM) for arbitrarily deporting five foreigners present in the town during the incident. "It is clear, according to the evidence gathered by this commission, that during the operation, some officers brutally beat the detainees, even putting their lives at risk," the report reads. The report also says there was evidence of looting and pilfering of houses searched by police during the incident. Human rights official Susana Thali'a Pedroza said that violence could have been avoided through dialogue, "but instead (the state) resorted to the use of force," while CNDH head Jose' Luis Soberanes called for State of Mexico authorities to punish officers responsible for the abuses. "If some authorities choose to sustain the lie and protect the guilty, society will suffer a double abuse," Soberanes said during the press conference on Monday. The violence occurred on May 3 after municipal officials tried to prevent a group of flower venders from San Salvador Atenco from setting up stalls in front of a local market. -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 (or chiapas95-lite, or chiapas95-english, or chiapas95-espanol) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists.
