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U.N. rights office urges Mexico to act over extrajudicial killings

The United Nations human rights office called on Mexico on Friday to properly investigate large-scale extrajudicial killings and bring those responsible to justice, including higher-ranking military officers.

Mexico's military has been accused on multiple occasions of extrajudicial killings and torture during a decade-long war against the country's brutal drug cartels.

Last week a Mexican judge acquitted three military personnel of the extrajudicial killing of 15 suspected gang members during a confrontation in June 2014 in Tlatlaya.

"We are deeply concerned that almost two years after the commission of serious human rights violations in Tlatlaya in . . .

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