I came across this posting yesterday on BBC news (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4755682.stm) regarding Mexico's "Dirty War" which occurred from 1964 to 1982.
In case you haven't heard of it, the Mexican government was involved in a war against Left wing rebels and for years there have been charges that the Mexican military committed gross human rights violations against the rebels including torture, kidnapping, and murder.
"The draft reports authors write: "The authoritarian attitude with which the Mexican state wished to control social dissent created a spiral of violence which... led it to commit crimes against humanity, including genocide." "
The draft report can be found here (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB180/index.htm) on the National Security Archive's website. The documents are in Spanish so I haven't gotten the chance to translate them, but I wanted my readers to be able have access to these documents since they are important in understanding the events that occurred in Mexico, and also the relevance they have to today's "War on Terror." It would be a horrible thing to have this type of report issued for the American government 20 years down the line about our war but it seems that this is the road that we are walking.
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