October 29, 2004
Mexico's Supreme Court Agrees to Review Genocide Charges
In a decision that will have major implications for other human-rights cases here, Mexico's Supreme Court has agreed to review genocide charges against the former president Luis EcheverrÃa and other ex-officials accused of ordering the massacre of dozens of student protesters in 1971.
The court's unanimous decision to hear the case, announced this month, came two months after a lower-court judge dismissed the charges, saying that a 30-year statute of limitations had expired. But
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