Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso Special Report
[ Subject Matter: Civilian deaths at Villa Purificacion during Government on CJNG fighting.
Recommendation: Read Lucio R post on the operationsee link]
Reporters: Alberto Osorio M and Felipe Cobian R
[ Subject Matter: Civilian deaths at Villa Purificacion during Government on CJNG fighting.
Recommendation: Read Lucio R post on the operationsee link]
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| Family members of the disappeared from Operation Jalisco send a delegation to the PGR in Guadalajara |
Villa Purificacion, Ecuanduero, Apatzingan.... catalogued by the Federal Government and State as " confrontations" with organized criminals, massacres like those recently perpetrated in the locations of Jalisco and Michoacan, have similarities: dark and distorted information on the part of the Forces or implicated authorities, more grave use of excessive force every time, typified by crimes against humanity, and systematic impunity. In that respect to Villa Purificacion, Jalisco, a Proceso investigation into the unofficial civilian death toll at 43, double those reported by Government Officials. In all cases the question is the same: were they combatants or executed?
Today, Military troops fly over the area and patrol the streets, roads and breaches, also planting road blocks. The uniformed officers of the Fuerza Unica Rural (FUR) replaced the Municipal Police who were detained for alleged links with narco traffickers, who were then liberated on masse, one week later.
Angered by the arrogance of the soldiers and officers of the FUR, traders closed the doors of businesses and homes. A Helicopter from the PGR manoeuvres in the air, sets down to pick up a suspect who has been arrested, wounded or deceased, then rise again into the air.
The habitants of this village, almost planted in paradise for five centuries, they now live in anxiety, they have fear of other confrontations similar to Friday the 1st of May, when Sicarios of CJNG brought down an Army Cougar helicopter.
20 days after the confrontation, on the corner of City Hall, in the shade of a few trees in the main plaza, next to the Parish, a dozen people stand together. They are relatives of the dead and missing from Friday the 1st.
Some come from far Jalisco Municipalities; others are from neighboring villages. It took them days to arrive. Then after hours of fruitless waiting, they decided to return and for no reason gave them authority over the 43 bodies to the experts of the Forensic Medical Services (Semefo), which were then taken to the Jalisco institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) of Guadalajara.
They will be watching the results of Amparo 666/2015 filed by Lawyer Javier Diaz, promoted in the Fifth District Court of Criminal Matters to proceed with identification of the bodies, they say.
Without doubt, the Institute assures that it can only do the identifications once they have received authorisation from SEIDO. For now they cannot even deliver the DNA results to find out the names of the dead.
Original article in Spanish at Proceso
They will be watching the results of Amparo 666/2015 filed by Lawyer Javier Diaz, promoted in the Fifth District Court of Criminal Matters to proceed with identification of the bodies, they say.
Without doubt, the Institute assures that it can only do the identifications once they have received authorisation from SEIDO. For now they cannot even deliver the DNA results to find out the names of the dead.
Original article in Spanish at Proceso