Mexico: Genocide Case Against Former President 'To Be Reopened'
By Creed Politico - September 23, 2018
Luis Echeverria is accused of masterminding the Tlatelolco (1968) and Corpus Christi (1971) massacres.
https://www.creedpolitico.com/mexico-genocide-case-against-former-president-to-be-reopened/
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Mexico: Genocide Case Against Former President 'To Be Reopened'
Published 22 September 2018
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The Committee 68, an organization dedicated to finding justice for the 1968 student massacre in Mexico, is appealing the Judicial Power of the Federation (PJF) to reopen the case against former President Luis Echeverria.
Echeverria, now 96, was secretary of the interior during the presidency of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, when the massacre took place, and president at the time of the 1971 ‘massacre of Corpus Christi.’
The repressive policies against social movements under his administration became known as the ‘dirty war,’ in which hundreds of people were forcibly disappeared and many murdered in extrajudicial killings.
“When we first denounced the crimes in 1998, the judge rejected them because they had expired,” said Felix Gonzalez, of Committee 68, a student leader in the 1968 movement.
More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexico-Genocide-Case-Against-Former-President-To-Be-Reopened-20180922-0021.html
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From 2006:
Mexico's Ex-Leader Charged With Genocide
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 1, 2006
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A draft of a government report on the war, which was leaked to the news media earlier this year but which has not been endorsed by Fox, alleged the torture, rape and murder of hundreds of people by the military during this period.
Echeverria was Mexico's interior minister at the time of the Tlatelolco Massacre. The draft report says that numerous acts of repression took place during his tenure as president of Mexico, from 1970 to 1976.
"What the people of Mexico and the country need is justice," Elena Poniatowski, author of the book "Massacre in Mexico," said in an interview Friday after the arrest.
Frustrations about lack of action on Echeverria's case have boiled over in the past month, said Poniatowski, whose groundbreaking reporting for the La Jornada newspaper alleged involvement of top government officials in the massacre.
Several weeks ago, she said, a group of people painted the front door of Echeverria's house red -- the mark of an assassin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001562.html
