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Mexico vigilantes urge more ‘self-defense’ groups

By Washington Examiner
Published May 28, 2014 11:50pm ET
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Mexico vigilantes urge more ‘self-defense’ groups
Father Alejandro Sololinde holds up a broom marked with a green ribbon as he urges people to support vigilante groups' efforts to sweep clean the country, during a national meeting of self-defense groups, in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Other speakers at the meeting included Michoacan vigilante leaders Jose Manuel Mireles, left, and Hipolito Mora, second left, as well as Ernesto Ruffo, right. Activists and social representatives announced Wednesday their intention to form a network of self-defense forces on a national scale that will denounce and confront violence. The network will shun the use of weapons. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) | Rebecca Blackwell

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Human rights activists and vigilante leaders who rose up to fight a drug cartel in western Mexico on Wednesday urged Mexicans to form “self-defense” groups to demand public security and justice.

In a meeting Wednesday, they called on the people of Mexico to declare themselves members of “self-defense” groups but without arming themselves.

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