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U.N. report advises Mexico on crime fighting, human rights
U.N. report advises Mexico on crime fighting, human rights
Panel urges army shouldn't be police
By Will Weissert
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 9, 2003
MEXICO CITY ? Mexico should stop using soldiers to fight crime, improve its investigation of homicides, and revamp its constitution to guarantee the
protection of human rights, a top U.N. human rights official said in a report released yesterday.
Requested by President Vicente Fox, the 224-page analysis was compiled over several months by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights' Mexican
envoy and 12 human rights organizations to "design and implement a state human rights policy" for this country.
The commission's Mexican representative, Anders Kompas, said Mexico was "one of the few countries in the world" where U.N. investigators have
completed an analysis that explains how the government can fix problems, instead of merely pointing out what's wrong.
In a statement, New York-based Human Rights Watch applauded the report as a road map for Mexican human rights, saying it "opens a window of
opportunity for progress."
It recommends the government stop relying on the army to do the work of civilian police officers and investigators. Soldiers are mostly used to battle
drug trafficking and investigate guerrilla groups, but their actions have prompted human rights complaints and some soldiers have been accused of
taking part in the narcotics trade.
Although military courts have become more open, the report suggests civilian courts be allowed to dole out justice in some military crimes.
"The separation of judicial duties and those of a military nature has been a constant worry of international non-governmental organizations," the
report says. It says creating a criminal justice system free from the influence of the armed forces "is a requirement for all democracies."
It calls for Mexico to modify its constitution to guarantee the protection of human rights, including stronger language protecting a defendant's right
to the assumption of innocence until proven guilty.
Congress should also begin anew a debate on how the constitution can better protect the rights of Mexican Indians, the report concludes. After taking
office three years ago, Fox sent a bill to Congress that would have given Indian groups greater rights and limited autonomy. The measure was watered
down by Congress, however.
Receiving the report from Kompas at a ceremony last night, Fox said he would create a national human rights program to try to carry out all 32 of its
general recommendations.
The president said the report is "both revealing how much needs to be done to make true personal rights an everyday reality and also indisputably
showing that the human rights situation in our country is better now than it was just three years ago."
In an effort to improve homicide investigations, the report urges police and prosecutors to establish guidelines ensuring that forensic experts are
properly trained and incorruptible.
It also suggests that authorities work to make the interrogation process more open and uniform in order to prevent the practice of torturing suspects
to secure confessions and calls for the creation of a federal juvenile court system with consistent national standards.
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And whos going to fight the drug cartels? the police? i think since 90% of them are under the cartels payrolls, the our best bet is the army.
The U.N. has no clue on whats goin on here, to start they shoul recommend the resignation of dumb ass Vicente Fox.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
And whos going to fight the drug cartels? |
I think Mexico should work out a deal with the cartels. In return for selling ALL their product to the stupid gringos, not killing innocents down here
and paying a little bit of tax, Mexico should help them operate.
( I mean help them more than they are already helping them:lol
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
And whos going to fight the drug cartels? |
I think Mexico should work out a deal with the cartels. In return for selling ALL their product to the stupid gringos, not killing innocents down here
and paying a little bit of tax, Mexico should help them operate.
( I mean help them more than they are already helping them:lol
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Problem with that Dave, is that they are too greedy, the goverment already lets them operate, who are we kidding here, maybe Vicente Fox is not aware
of this, but who cares, the people who actually run the nation are completely corrupted.
What we need is a strong goverment, and frankly, i dont see anyway that the Fox administration can achieve that, this is the most weak goverment ever
in Mexico.
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