Prosecutors Continue to Press Investigation Into Alleged Slaying of 22 by Soldiers The Associated Press
go to original April 3, 2016

Clara Gómez González, the mother of one of the victims at Tlatlaya. She petitioned the military tribunal for information about the decision that was revealed publicly. (Cuartoscuro)

Mexican prosecutors said they continue to investigate and to press charges in the 2014 army killings of 22 suspected criminals, including between 12 and 15 who allegedly were executed after surrendering.

The statement came a day after the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez human rights group revealed that a military court had cleared six of seven soldiers of breach-of-discipline charges.

The federal attorney general's office said that homicide cases against three of the seven continue in a civilian court and that prosecutors are investigating any wider responsibility in the case. The rights group had said earlier that commanding officers apparently gave the soldiers orders to kill suspects.

Prosecutors said they were looking for anyone else responsible for the killings but appeared to lay the blame on one of the three surviving witnesses, saying she had to testify again.

The human rights group said forcing the witness to testify again would re-victimize her. Her daughter was killed in the June 2014 confrontation between an army patrol and a group of criminal suspects.

Read the rest at The Houston Chronicle

Related: Activists Denounce Quiet Acquittal of Tlatlaya ‘Suspects’ (El Daily Post)

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