Tortured at Random
Tortured at Random
Posted: 18/12/2013 17:36
Miriam López had just finished the school run. Suddenly, two balaclava-wearing men grabbed this 30-year-old mother of four and forced her into a white van. It was in 2011, at Ensenada near Mexico's border with the USA.
"I didn't know who they were, and when I asked them, they put a gun to my head and told me to shut up or they would blow my head off," Miriam later said. It turned out the men were soldiers in plain clothes, and they drove her to a military barracks in nearby Tijuana.
"They tortured me: they repeatedly put wet cloths over my face and poured water over it so I couldn't breathe," Miriam said. "I then felt a stream of water up my nose... they did this repeatedly as they kept on asking the same questions."
They gave her electric shocks and raped her; they showed her recent pictures of her children and partner and told her they "would go for them" if she didn't cooperate.
The soldiers were trying to force Miriam to confess to trafficking drugs through a military checkpoint. They tortured her until she signed a statement falsely implicating herself.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tilly-lavenas/torture-in-mexico_b_4453141.html
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