Description |
1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Methodology. -- Executive summary and recommendations. -- The roots of crisis: authoritarianism, organized crime, and militarization. -- Dimensions or the crisis. -- Crimes against humanity. -- Political obstacles to criminal accountability. -- Building on a mixed record of reform. -- Conclusion. -- Endnotes |
Summary |
Since the Mexican government escalated its war on organized crime at the end of 2006, over 150,000 Mexicans have been intentionally murdered. Countless thousands of others have been tortured; no one knows how many have disappeared. Caught between government forces and organized crime cartels, the Mexican people have suffered as atrocities and impunity reign. Based on three years of research, over 100 interviews, and previously unreleased government documents, this report finds a reasonable basis to believe that government forces and members of criminal cartels have perpetrated crimes against humanity in Mexico. The report comprehensively examines why there has been so little justice for atrocity crimes, and finds the main answers in political obstruction. Given the lack of political will to end impunity, new approaches must be taken. The report argues for a series of institutional changes, most importantly the creation of an internationalized investigative body, based inside Mexico, with powers to independently investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-218) |
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This report is also published in Spanish |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (Open Society Foundations, viewed June 7, 2016) |
Subject |
Human rights -- Mexico
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Torture -- Mexico
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Disappeared persons -- Mexico
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Extrajudicial executions -- Mexico
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Justice, Administration of -- Mexico
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Disappeared persons.
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Extrajudicial executions.
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Human rights.
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Justice, Administration of.
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Torture.
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Mexico.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Open Society Foundations, publisher
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ISBN |
9781940983622 |
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1940983622 |
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