8 Farmers Slain in Chiapas Dispute
Masked gunmen using assault rifles killed eight Indian farmers and wounded three in an apparent land dispute, officials in Chiapas state said.
The Thursday killings came a day before Mexican officials gathered in the remote jungle village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, 95 miles east of where the attack occurred, to close an army base.
The closure fulfilled the last remaining demand of leftist Zapatista rebels for restarting peace talks.
The victims of the attack, members of a peasant group allied with the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, were shot to death near the village of Canalucum in Venustiano Carranza township, allegedly by a leftist group of farmers.
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