Mexican protesters: Police threatened to dismember, burn us ‘like the Ayotzinapa students’ (Video)

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican protesters: Police threatened to dismember, burn us ‘like the Ayotzinapa students’ (Video)

By Manuel Rueda @thisisfusion

and Tania Miranda @thisisfusion

Posted 12/03/2014 2:58 pm

Human rights groups are stepping up efforts to monitor police activity during protests in Mexico, as demonstrations over the disappearance of 43 students continue across the country, often ending in violent clashes and dozens of arrests.

On Monday, as thousands of Mexicans marched through downtown Mexico City demanding justice for the missing students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college, volunteers in brightly colored vests kept a close eye on riot police deployed to the protests.

“We came here because in the last march, police used force in an excessive and indiscriminate manner, they broke with protocols and many people, including members of civil organizations were injured,” said Perseo Quiroz, the executive director of Amnesty International in Mexico.

A group of about 50 Amnesty volunteers attended the march in bright yellow vests, monitoring for potential clashes between protesters and police.

“These vests help us to identify each other,” Quiroz said. “But they’re also a message to the government that Amnesty is here, and we are monitoring what´s happening.”

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[MisterP]

1. not the first time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War_%28Mexico%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acteal_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguas_Blancas_massacre

the cartels are just the sprouts: the PRI is the soil and the seed

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thank you for this information.We need to know, appreciate the opportunity you've put before us. n/t

[MisterP]

3. farmers have actually been getting shot by pistoleros since the 70s--over tomatoes instead of coke

the cartels aren't breaking much new ground, it's more like a shift in scale

both populism and brutality were combined under Echeverría--a very interesting President and era (he also insisted Mexico's problem was that its demographic rate was too low ...)

[Judi Lynn]

4. Echeverría, oh, boy. What a history he carved for himself.

I saw that he was well regarded by both Italy, and Austria.

Not so much at home, one would think.

Found a way to escape the genocide charge. Sounds like Rios-Montt. "Genocide" would have been a stain on his formal record.

So much happened while he was in charge. Crazy. I hope to find out more about that Presidency.

Thank you.