Investigators in Mexico have made a groundbreaking revelation at Cima de San José, unearthing the largest human bone assemblage ever found in southwest Tamaulipas.
History of abuse for Mexican police unit in migrant massacre
Alfredo Peña And Mark Stevenson
Associated Press
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021 file photo, German and Maria Tomas pose for a photo holding a framed portrait of their grandson Ivan Gudiel who they believe is one of the charred corpses found on a rural road on the Mexico-US border township of Camargo, at their home in Comitancillo, Guatemala. A dozen special operations officers have been ordered held for trial on charges they shot to death at least 14 Guatemalan migrants and two Mexicans on a rural road in the border township of Camargo. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Migrants wait for bottles of drinking water by a makeshift encampment in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, October 28, 2019. Reuters
A dozen Mexican police officers, some of them members elite force, have been arrested in connection with a massacre in northeast Mexico in January.
The Special Operations Group is a SWAT-style unit formed in mid-2020 to carry out high-profile security operations against organized-crime groups.
A dozen police officers have been implicated in the massacre of 19 people along the US-Mexico border at the end of January, underscoring the systematic violence directed at those most vulnerable in areas where organized crime groups operate.