Chilling videos on the rise in Mexican drug war
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MEXICO CITY — Amateur videos from Mexican drug gangs were this week linked to the discovery of a mass grave and the killing of a man who had been made to confess ties to a rival gang as he was filmed at gunpoint.
The video sharing Web site is just one fear-inducing tool in the growing communications war between Mexico’s powerful gangs, alongside Facebook, Twitter, e-mailing and scores of Web sites.
As drug-related violence worsens, the use of recorded forced confessions, resembling techniques seen by terror groups in Iraq or Afghanistan, is on the rise.
An eruption of suspected drug violence has left more than 28,000 persons dead nationwide since the government launched a military clampdown on organized crime in 2006, according to official figures.
Mexican investigators on Thursday sought to identify 18 bodies found in a mass grave near Acapulco, which a video posted on YouTube suggested could be linked to 20 men from Michoacan state missing for over a month..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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