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Activists say there's still a dirty war going on in Mexico.
Byline: Susana Hayward
ATOYAC de ALVAREZ, Mexico _ While Mexico debates charges against ex-President Luis Echeverria for the deaths of demonstrators 33 years ago, human rights advocates and others say police are still waging a dirty war in Guerrero state, with little or no government effort to stop it.
Federal prosecutors in Guerrero deny there's any pattern to the police abuses, blaming them on corrupt and unethical police officers. They say they're recruiting more honest men to fill the state's police ranks.
But human rights officials cite a variety of cases to back their claim that abuses systematically aren't prosecuted. Amnesty International thinks there's a political component to the cases.
"Amnesty International is seriously concerned about the continuing harassment of leaders of peasant organizations," the agency wrote in its 2003 annual report, citing events in Guerrero.
Among the cases that advocates cite:
_At least 20 judicial police commanders, chiefs and officers remain at large, even though they've been charged with homicide, rape, abduction and torture, according to Guerrero's Human Rights Commission.
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