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Article: Activists say there's still a dirty war going on in Mexico.
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- August 1, 2004
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Byline: Susana Hayward
ATOYAC de ALVAREZ, Mexico _ While Mexico debates charges against ex-President Luis Echeverria for the deaths of demonstrators 33 years ago, human rights advocates and others say police are still waging a dirty war in Guerrero state, with little or no government effort to stop it.
Federal prosecutors in Guerrero deny there's any pattern to the police abuses, blaming them on corrupt and unethical police officers. They say they're recruiting more honest men to fill the state's police ranks.
But human rights officials cite a variety of cases to back their claim that abuses systematically aren't prosecuted. Amnesty ...