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(23 Sep 2014) Mexico's Civil Rights Commission said on Tuesday that in six weeks' time it should have finished an investigation into the confrontation between the Mexican Army and a suspected drug gang that left 22 people dead in the early morning of 30 June.
Raul Plascencia Villanueva, president of the Commission, said the investigation will try and shed light on how the victims died.
"Today we have nearly 700 pages of information, expert reports, witness accounts from various neighbours, and from the three people who survived the incident," he said.
The Mexican government had maintained that all 22 died during a fierce shootout in the town of San Pedro Limon when soldiers were fired on in the early morning of June 30. That version came into question because government troops suffered only one wounded, and physical evidence at the scene pointed towards more selective killings.
Recently, a woman came forward saying she saw soldiers fatally shoot her 15-year-old daughter Erika Gomez Gonzalez in the incident, even though the girl was lying wounded on the ground.
Twenty others also were shot to death after they surrendered and were disarmed, the mother said. She said one youth was killed earlier in a gunbattle with the troops.
According to the witness, only one gunman died in the initial shootout, and another gang member and her daughter were wounded. The rest of the gunmen surrendered on the promise they would not be hurt, she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
After the gang surrendered, Gonzalez lay face down in the ground, a bullet wound in her leg.
Soldiers rolled her over while she was still alive and shot her more than a half dozen times in the chest, her mother said.
Another suspected gang member was injured in the initial attack.
The witness said she had gone to the warehouse the night before to try to retrieve her daughter from the gang she had apparently joined.
The soldiers interrogated the rest of the gang members in front of the warehouse, and then took them inside one-by-one, she said. From where she stood just outside the warehouse and in army custody, she heard gunshots and moans of the dying.
Several days after the killings, AP reporters visited and took pictures of the warehouse and found little evidence of sustained
fighting.
There were few stray bullet marks and no shell casings. At least five spots along the warehouse's inside walls showed the same
pattern: One or two closely placed bullet pocks, surrounded by a mass of spattered blood, giving the appearance that some of those killed had been standing against the wall and shot at about chest level.
After the AP report, the state of Mexico prosecutors' office released a statement saying there was "no evidence at all of
possible executions," said it found ballistic evidence of "crossfire with a proportionate interchange of gunshots."
The state government refused to release autopsy reports that the AP requested under Mexico's freedom of information law, declaring them state secrets to be guarded for nine years.


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