Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 15:05:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Sendic Estrada Jimenez <sestrada-AT-fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-I: E;Reuter, Mexico hunts Rebels in Guerrero, Jun 1 (fwd)


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Subject: E;Reuter, Mexico hunts Rebels in Guerrero, Jun 1

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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 23:56:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Mexico hunts down rebels amid reports of fighting (fwd)



On Sun, 1 Jun 1997
	 ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuter) - Mexican army troops scoured the  
remote mountains of western Mexico Sunday in search of leftist 
rebels amid unconfirmed reports of a new clash between 
guerrillas and police in the troubled region. 
	 Three police were wounded late Saturday in a gun battle with

Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) guerrillas in Guerrero state, 
which exploded in rebel violence last week, Mexico's El 
Universal newspaper reported Sunday. 
	 It said the fighting took place in San Luis La Loma, a town  
some 50 miles north of this Pacific tourist resort. The 
information could not immediately be confirmed. 
	 At least nine people were killed in the past week in a  
string of battles between the Marxist EPR and army troops. Since 
then, thousands of troops have fanned out across the 
impoverished state to hunt down the rebels. 
	 The ERP is believed to have several hundred well-armed  
fighters in a handful of central Mexican states, but is not 
viewed as a serious threat to Mexico's army. 
    Mexico's official National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)  
said Sunday it sent a team of investigators to Guerrero to check 
on mounting allegations of human rights abuse by the army during 
its sweep through the state in search of rebels. 
	 Residents of nearby El Quemado accused the army of arresting

and torturing two local farmers, identified as Paulino Padilla 
Rosales, 38, and his son Antonio, 15. 
	 Ruben Pino, a local official in charge of the farming  
collective, told Reuters Saturday the men were arrested shortly 
after the battles broke out because they were wearing army-style 
boots at the time. 
	 Pino said the men were taken to a military office,  
questioned about the EPR and beaten. Pictures of bruises and 
cuts on their bodies appeared in Saturday editions of two 
Mexican newspapers, El Universal and Excelsior. 
	 ``The entire village is frightened,'' he said, adding that  
another young local farmer, Martin Barrientos, was missing and 
feared dead after being arrested by army troops. 


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