Mexico City Security Forces to Face a Case from International Criminal Court Following Mass Crime Against Humanity

Mexico: Three days after the Mexico City officials found 117 bodies along with a two-week old foetus and corpses of two children in the mass grave, a report was published on Monday by the Open Society Justice Initiative and five other human rights organizations. According to this EXIN Times writer, the report was referred to the crime saying that ‘the Mexican security forces have committed crime against humanity’ and thus, it is very likely that a criminal case against the force will be filed by the International Criminal Court.

The 232-page report has asserted that the Mexican security forces have committed crimes against humanity, ‘with mass disappearances and extrajudicial killings rife during the country's decade-long drug war.’ “We have concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe there are both state and non-state actors who have committed crimes against humanity in Mexico,” the report said.

EXIN Times sources asserted that the Mexican drug war has claimed as many as 150,000 lives since 2006 due to the drug war. It was also incorporated human abuse as one of the key exploitation of lives.  The report said that  ‘consistent human rights abuses — including those committed by members of the Zetas drug cartel— satisfied the definition of crimes against humanity.’

Speculations are that the drug gang members were shot to death by the security forces, while increasing the casualty rates abnormally. This was followed by an attack at the Ayotzinapa teacher-training college in 2014 killing 43 students, tarnishing Mexico City’s reputation. The report was based on cases that took place from 2006 to 2015, including interviews and documents of this period.