Mexican soldiers accused in 2014 massacre re-arrested
Associated PressMEXICO CITY — Seven Mexican soldiers who were accused in the 2014 army killings of 22 drug cartel suspects but later freed have been re-arrested, a human rights group confirmed Thursday. The Miguel Agustin Pro Human Rights Center, which represents a women whose daughter was killed in the massacre, confirmed the soldiers were re-arrested and said the case against them remains active. “Today, it has been revealed that they have been carried out.” The June 2014 massacre involved soldiers who killed 22 suspects at a grain warehouse in the town of Tlatlaya. While some of the 22 died in an initial shootout with an army patrol — in which one soldier was wounded — a human rights investigation determined that at least eight and perhaps as many as a dozen suspects were executed after they surrendered.
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