150 reported disappeared in Piedras Negras
150 reported disappeared in Piedras Negras
By Staff Writers, teleSUR
Sunday, Feb 8, 2015
local NGO said at least 60 of the cases have been carried out by a government special forces unit.
Over 150 people have been reported disappeared in the small city of Piedras Negras in the northern border Mexican state of Coahuila in the last 18 months, of which at least 60 have been attributed to elite police forces, according to a lawyer overseeing the cases.
Families of victims and their lawyers accused state government of creating special forces that have carried out arbitrary detentions, tortures and enforced disappearances across Coahuila during the last six years.
The creation of elite police forces, which in the past have been sent to the U.S. for special training by the FBI, is not new in Mexico. These types of forces have been accused of acting as death squads for the government and have sometimes carried out assassinations ordered by organized crime gangs.
“Special units of the army and navy, assassins trained by armed forces desertors and civilians trained by foreign security forces operate in Mexico as death squad,” Proceso published in June of 2013.
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