Video Shows Extrajudicial Execution By Mexican Military, Amnesty Confirms

05/25/2017 01:35 pm ET
Video Shows Extrajudicial Execution By Mexican Military, Amnesty Confirms
Mexico is debating a bill that would grant policing powers to its armed forces.
By Jesselyn Cook


Video footage that appears to document a Mexican soldier killing a suspected gas thief in cold blood raises another major red flag about the country’s efforts to expand the policing powers of its armed forces, activists are warning.

Mexican military sources have claimed that unknown assailants launched an attack against an army unit in the central city of Palmarito Tochapan earlier this month. An hourslong gun battle ensued, in which at least five people including civilians and soldiers were killed.

But the surveillance camera video, obtained and independently verified by Amnesty International, contradicts parts of their story and offers graphic evidence of the armed forces’ oft-unreported atrocities, rights groups allege.

It purports to show uniformed troops dragging an injured, unarmed man along the ground on the night of May 3. Minutes later, one of the soldiers appears to shoot him in the back of the head. Blood pools around his body as the troops continue their operation unfazed.

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