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MEXICO: Police Arrested for Killing Indigenous Protesters

ipsnews.net » 2008 » October » 7th » MEXICO: Police Arrested for Killing Indigenous Protesters

MEXICO CITY, Oct 7 (IPS) - The recent killings of six indigenous people and the injuries suffered by 17 others in a clash with police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas were the result of a strategy of "criminalising social protest" adopted by the state’s "supposedly leftist government," according to a prominent local human rights group … Continue Reading »

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