August 5, 2005
Mexican Judge Drops Genocide Charges
A Mexican judge has dismissed genocide charges against a former president, Luis EcheverrÃa, and another former top official stemming from a 1971 massacre of student protesters. The decision was a major blow to efforts to prosecute people for past human-rights crimes in Mexico.
The judge, Herlinda Velasco, ruled in late July that the killing of at least a dozen students did not fit the legal definition of genocide. She also held that the attacks, which witnesses said had been
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