Mexico may consider truth commission on `dirty war,' official says

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Sep. 03, 2004

Mexico may consider truth commission on `dirty war,' official says

BY SUSANA HAYWARD
Knight Ridder Newspapers


MEXICO CITY - (KRT) - Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said a truth commission to investigate "dirty war" crimes against political dissidents 30 years ago would be an option if the courts didn't indict officials for offenses in that era.

His remarks late Thursday came as Mexico's Supreme Court prepares to decide next week whether to reinstate charges brought by a special prosecutor against former President Luis Echeverria and other officials for alleged genocide in the deaths of 20 to 40 students on June 10, 1971.
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Carrillo is in charge of investigating the disappearances of some 600 political dissidents, insurgents and leftists during the period when rebel groups, many Marxist, surged throughout the country and the government, run by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, responded with arbitrary arrests, torture and banishment.

In July, Carrillo charged Echeverria, who was president from 1970 to 1976, and 11 other top officials with the student deaths in 1971. According to Carrillo, witnesses say an elite force called the Falcons, which Echeverria created, ambushed the students and opened fire unprovoked. Echeverria has denied the charges, saying the deaths were the result of an armed standoff with the students.
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1. 600 political dissidents, insurgents and leftists<<

Again.... they weren't students and dissidents.... they were terrorists. It is amazing to me just how ruthless ANY group can be when facing down an opposing political system... including the Pugs.

There isn't an NBC or a New York Times or a Washington Post source for this story... but for those who respect Joe Conasons work... I believe this is his partner... Andrew Cockburn... so the source should be pretty solid.

Source: Andrew and Patrick Cockburn,
excerpt from Out of the Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, 2000.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html
>>Another very good example of a CIA-organized regime change was a coup in 1963 that employed political assassination, mass imprisonment, torture and murder. This was the military coup that first brought Saddam Hussein's beloved Ba'ath Party to power in Iraq. At the time, Richard Helms was Director for Plans at the CIA. That is the top CIA position responsible for covert actions, like organizing coups. Helms served in that capacity until 1966, when he was made Director.<<