The World - News from May 14, 1986
Amnesty International accused Mexican authorities of collaborating in widespread murder and torture of peasants in rural Mexico. The London-based human rights group charged that scores of peasants in the southeastern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas have been killed in recent years during boundary conflicts and other disputes with landowners. Usually, the killers were armed civilians in the pay of rural landlords, often acting in close collaboration with local authorities, the report said.
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