Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: Just dancing through life
|
|
How comforting--fled TO the United States
December 11, 2008
Tijuana News
Report: Police Massacred Prisoners
An official report from the Baja California Attorney General for Human
Rights has blamed state police for killing the majority of at least two
dozen prisoners slain during uprisings at Tijuana's La Mesa prison last
September. Among the 22 findings made in the report were "observations"
that state lawmakers and prosecutors should initiate political and
criminal proceedings against state Public Safety Director Daniel de la
Rosa Anaya, whose employees were blamed for torturing and shooting
prisoners.
Francisco Javier Sanchez Corona, state human rights ombudsman, said
evidence showing slain prisoners were shot from above coincided with
testimonies of shots being fired from a State Preventive Police
helicopter. According to Sanchez, the official death toll of the prison
violence of 24 inmates was higher since the burned remains of other
victims were recovered.
Sanchez's office urged state officials to investigate federal, state and
local police officers who were involved in suppressing the rebellious
prisoners, as well as four ex-prison officials for their possible role in
the massacre. In its report, the official state human rights agency said
Baja California Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan should issue a
"public apology" to inmates and the families of slain and injured
prisoners who were "victims of human rights violations."
The report called for the apprehension of two former guards, Marco Antonio
Ibarra Chavez and Daniel Ibarra Perez, both of whom are charged with
torture and murder in connection with the death of inmate Israel Blanco
Marquez. Baja California officials earlier said they suspected the two
ex-guards had fled to the United States.
The fugitives, together with correctional officers Jorge Eduardo Gonzalez
Montero and Alex Cervantes, have been linked to the beating death of
19-year-old Israel Blanco over the issue of possessing a cell phone and
marijuana. Twenty-two other prisoners of La Mesa's Cellblock No. 5 also
were allegedly tortured by guards during the probe.
Observers credited the Blanco killing and inmate tortures for sparking the
first inmate uprising that terminated in a massacre several days later.
Source: La Jornada, December 11, 2008. Article by Olga Alicia ******
Castillo.
Frontera NorteSur (FNS): on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news
Center for Latin American and Border Studies New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
|
|
|
Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: missing Baja...
|
|
Oh No! A cell phone AND marijuana??? That is the norm all around , everywhere. That is a disturbing article, to say the least.Bernie, can you tell me
what an ombudsman is? Sounds kinda like a guy high on weed and meditating!!! 
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13050
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
Oh sally, thanks for the best laugh of the week....I shall never look at ombudsmen the same ever again.
|
|
|
Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: missing Baja...
|
|
Well sure Shari! I really could look it up, but seriously, what IS a ombudsman???(I live a sheltered life). 
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13050
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
I thought it was a NGO, kind of non partisan...neutral person who one can file a complaint with...maybe...but I prefer your take on em.
|
|
|
Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: missing Baja...
|
|
Yeah, Me thinks it is a lot betta!(State human rights ombudsman?) Thats just weird!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
|
|
|
gnukid
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4411
Registered: 7-2-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
Sally,
The victim Blanco had a cell phone and marijuana in Jail. His beating and death in Jail they blame for the prison riot. In truth this is a scape goat,
the prison riot was initially said to be a result of prison over-crowding and very poor conditions which is prevalent in Mexican Prisons.
An Ombudsman is a speaker or representative to argue for the best outcome for the majority of people in a given scenario or case, legal or simple
conflict, especially those who need the most help. It can either be a public or self appointment. Anyone can be an Ombudsman though they often are
chosen representatives.
[Edited on 12-12-2008 by gnukid]
|
|
|
Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: missing Baja...
|
|
Thanks gnukid. !! Got it now...sorry Shari
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
|
|
|
Hook
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9011
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
Member Is Offline
Mood: Inquisitive
|
|
Sally, your definition would be an aum-buds-mon and would be a shaman from Jamaica.
|
|
|
Sallysouth
Super Nomad
Posts: 1835
Registered: 10-9-2003
Location: Capo Beach
Member Is Offline
Mood: missing Baja...
|
|
good one Hook!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
