AP/Cop Confesses in Massacre (fwd)

[Sid Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

> Mexico Cop Confesses in Massacre
>
> SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) - Local police commander Felipe
> Vazquez today provided the first direct link between government officials and
> a massacre of 45 indians. He testified he had been ordered to check if
> civilians carrying illegal weapons were members of the Institutional
> Revolutionary Party. If they were, he said, he was told ``to leave them be.''
> The commander of the Chiapas state police detachment near the site of the Dec.
> 22 massacre has been charged with supplying weapons to the attackers. The
> attorney general's office, however, has yet to name any state officials as
> suspects.
>
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