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Mexico ’s governmental Truth Commission said in a report Friday that recollections by witnesses and documents leaked over the years described the chilling last moments of the victims.
The executions were part of an effort by the Mexican government at the time to eliminate leftist social and guerrilla movements.
The report cites evidence that nationwide there were about 4,500 identified victims of severe abuses during the so-called "dirty war.
Prosecutors linked Echeverría to the dirty war’ in which hundreds of left-wing activists and members of fringe guerrilla groups were imprisoned, killed, or simply disappeared without a trace.
In 2005 , a judge ruled the former president could not be tried on genocide charges stemming from political killings in 1971 .
A federal court upheld a lower court’s ruling in 2009 .
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