Human Rights Commission Finds Army Killings of 6 Civilians Unjustified The Associated Press
go to original September 27, 2016

National Human Rights Commission President Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez Speaks during the presentation of a report about human rights abuses by Mexico's federal police, in Mexico City. (The Associated Press)

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has determined that soldiers killed six civilians without justification in a 2012 incident in the southern state of Guerrero.

The governmental commission says a group of about 20 soldiers pulled the two minors and four adults out of a party. They then allegedly took the victims to a field and shot them.

The army said at the time that the deaths were the result of a confrontation. But the commission found that the victims were unarmed and in custody and thus "did not represent a threat to the military personnel."

The commission recommended the army pay damages to the victims' families in its finding issued Monday.

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