11 Pro-Government Vigilantes Arrested
From Times Wire Reports
The attorney general’s office confirmed that 11 members of a pro-government vigilante group implicated in attacks in the state of Chiapas have been arrested. They were charged with organized crime, terrorism and illegal arms possession. They are accused of evicting sympathizers of Zapatista rebels at gunpoint and destroying homes in the village of Yajalon in August.
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