Mexican soldiers held as woman’s torture revealed

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican soldiers held as woman’s torture revealed

April 16, 2016

MEXICO CITY: Authorities have arrested a Mexican army captain and a soldier as a video emerged showing a woman being tortured by troops and a federal police officer, officials said on Thursday.

The attorney general’s office has launched a torture investigation while military authorities have charged the captain and a female soldier with disobeying orders.

The jarring clip circulating online shows a female soldier placing the tip of her assault rifle on the woman’s head as she sits barefoot on a dirt floor.

A federal police officer then tightly wraps a plastic bag around the woman’s head while one of the officials asks her, “Are you going to talk?”

More:
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/2a51dab7-d896-4ecd-b17a-fc4615bf76fe.aspx
Agence France-Presse

[Judi Lynn]

1. Mexican Soldiers and a Federal Agent Caught on Tape Torturing a Woman

Mexican Soldiers and a Federal Agent Caught on Tape Torturing a Woman

By Alan Hernández

April 15, 2016 | 3:50 pm

A video showing two soldiers and a federal police agent partially suffocating a woman with a plastic bag has strengthened long-standing allegations that Mexican security forces systematically violate human rights.

The video, uploaded on YouTube earlier this week, shows a young woman being constantly abused as she sits crying on a dirt floor, with her hands tied behind her back.

It begins when her head is covered by a shirt and one of the soldiers, a woman, is yelling questions about a person named María. Moments later, the federal police officer, who is also a woman, rolls a plastic bag over the detainee's head and threatens her with electric shocks or waterboarding. At one point the female soldier points a gun to her head, asking "do you remember now?"

Media coverage of the video, which has since been removed from YouTube, led the army to release a statement on Thursday saying that the event occurred in February 2015 but that the military authorities only learned about it nearly a year later. The statement said that the two soldiers involved — a military police officer and a captain — were arrested soon after that and are currently in custody, within military jurisdiction, charged with "disobedience."

More:
https://news.vice.com/article/mexico-army-soldiers-video-torturing-woman-human-rights

Article also posted in LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141416227

[noretreatnosurrender]

2. Thank you again

for posting this and the many other informative pieces that you do on a daily basis. I may not always comment on them but when I rec them please know that I have read them and appreciate your efforts.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Noretreatnosurrender, your comment is so kind. It's stupendous knowing our number is growing at DU,

and there's no way I would ever want to step away from looking for all the information I can find in the time available.

We have trolls, as you can see, trying to distract from the truth, but it doesn't matter. They are more than welcome to post their propaganda, and we'll keep on going, because everyone who's serious about finding the truth will start seeing the pattern after following the news long enough, and after than, NO ONE is going to be able to mislead them.

The truth speaks for itself, when people have a working familiarity with human behavior, right?

Thank you, very much.

[noretreatnosurrender]

4. Yes...the truth

"The Truth is on the march and nothing will stop it" --Emile Zola

[bemildred]

5. And they claim to be our betters, fit to govern. nt