Mexican report links former presidencies to 'crimes against humanity'

Sunday, November 19, 2006

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blamed "the highest command levels" of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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