The International Criminal Court received a complaint Nov. 25 that under president Felipe Calderón, the army and police committed hundreds of war crimes in Mexico’s drug war. The lawyer for the group that filed the complaint acknowledged that Mexico’s drug lords have also committed crimes against humanity in the battle between government and drug trafficking that has cost 35,000 to 40,000 lives over the past five years. Calderón’s government defended their security strategy, claiming that the war on drugs was not a traditional war and that law enforcement had not committed crimes against humanity.
NPR said Nov. 27 that a day before the complaint was filed, 26 corpses were found in Guadalajara, causing concern that the drug war was infiltrating the to date relatively peaceful city. #
