Thread: Amnesty International revisits Mexican mass femicide

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August 17, 2005

Amnesty International revisits Mexican mass femicide

By Kent Paterson

Editor, Frontera NorteSur

Two years after the release of its landmark report "Intolerable Deaths," Amnesty International was back in Mexico in early August to revisit the murders of girls and women in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City. The international human rights organization's 2003 report blasted Mexican officials for generally ignoring the wave of femicide which tore apart the soul of Chihuahua in recent years while fabricating scapegoats of the crimes under torture.

Since the "Intolerable Deaths" report two years ago, about 50 women and girls have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua. The causes of the murders vary â€â€

"There was stupidity after stupidity in this investigation," said Dante

What do you expect? We're talking about Mexico here.
At least Amnesty International is doing something for a change beside trying to load as many Mexicans into the US as possible.