After the explosions, several people left the scene.

The strengthening of the National Defense Secretariat (sedena) again intensified the alerts of civil organizations after the massacre of five civilians recorded in the early morning of February 26 at New Laredo.

According to the Human Rights Committee of the said region of the State of Tamaulipas, six young people were riddled with bullets by military elements: two of them, he pointed out, were finished off in the neck while that they were lying unconscious on the sidewalk, while the only survivor remains in a serious state of health.

This act was reproached following militarization as a public security strategy – and for which the government of President Andrés Manuel has been sharply and repeatedly criticized Lopez Obrador (AMLO).

“The facts show the disturbing consequences of the undeniable militarization of the course,” said the production center (Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center) in his statement shared via Twitter.

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After sharing the statement of the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee, the Center demanded that civil authorities open and report on the relevant investigations into the multiple homicides of the five young men from Tamaulipas and one from UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES).

In this sense, the organization stressed that the steps should not be taken by the secretariat in charge of Luis Cresencio Sandoval, but by the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Already the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH); even who, until this publication, have not issued any pronouncement of the reprehensible fact. Thus, the Prodh Center accused:

“It is worrying that these institutions do not talk and they do not intervene, showing in practice subordination In the Army.”

It should be remembered that arbitrary execution sparked a confrontationeven with blows, between residents and dozens of relatives with soldiers believing that the victims were not armed and that there was no argument to deprive them of their lives.

Under this consideration, the Center called for ensuring the safety of witnesses and the sole survivor during the relevant investigations, as well as human rights defenders and journalists documenting the event.

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After the fact, Tyler Mattiace investigator of Human Rights Watch expressed concern about complaints in which the military were accused not only of being the alleged perpetrators of the murder of the youths, but also of intimidating those who confronted them.

In view of this, he urged the authorities to investigate the military bodies and bring them to justice.

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