Mexican prosecutors are investigating what President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called the “execution” of five men in an incident that has sparked outrage from human rights observers.
Media outlets released a video on Tuesday, appearing to show a group of soldiers pulling the men from a crashed pick-up truck in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in the state of Tamaulipas. The soldiers then beat the occupants before lining them up against a wall and shooting them.
“Apparently this was an execution, and that cannot be permitted,” Lopez Obrador said at a daily press briefing on Wednesday. “Those responsible are about to be turned over to the appropriate authorities.”
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Mexico City.
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So now Al Jazeera is defending drug cartel members as they should have some human rights? Had you seen any executions made by them ?
Criminals don’t deserve human rights… Ya’ll are making a huge deal out of it… They kill people without care why should the army care🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
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Ah yes. Cartels. They deserve it.
These five mens with black vehicle were involved in Pak minister Mufti abdul Shakoor murder. Is it true?
Who were and were they have been gone?
Human rights and justice system based on choices and selected oriented.
Egypt 😂
This is Mexico.
Aljazeera su**s
They always support criminals
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Investigate what? These cartel idiots massacre hundreds monthly with no consequence. They deserve worse. These army men deserve medals.
Even in india the indian police are involve in such killings..the name of the police who were involve were jagpal singh dhanoa (ips offiicer) and shailendra bamaniaya (ips officer)
Oof. WTF did I just see?
Mexico is a warzone. I mean you dont see US army rolling around in gun trucks doing police work. Half the time they dont even carry guns when on us soil.
The only people who care about the human rights of criminals, are criminals themselves.
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You have to fight Fire with Fire!
The cartels in Mexico are funded, armed and supported by the DEA and CIA in US.
I’m ok with the way the military acted.
@Jesse Conde lol nah man I just have common sense
@Davidmi totla apoyo al ejercito mexicano el narco no merece respirar
@David 👈 another cartel sympathizer
@David common sense? when those cartel can kill all the police and army without judge and freely.. And even if they get judge their group will raise havoc that will make them suddenly release from jail.. I don’t support extrajudicial killing but it is necessary and more common sense than anything..
@arief rachman I get that this situation requires aggressive action and if I had to fight the cartel on the daily I’d probably be singing a different tune than the one I am now.
But this is the cost of being good guys. Evil always has an advantage they can lie cheat steal blackmail …
While the good guys have to be honest protect the innocent fight with honor and try to capture their enemies rather then killing them.
Being a good guy sounds pretty dumb but carrying those values will make you stronger than your enemy in the long run.
People can easily turn into the evil they wish to destroy if they stoop to their level.
“five men”
… five men that were previously shooting at them carrying .50 cal riffles..
Yeah send them to prison so they can release them again,I’m glad the military took action,less drug dealers on the street
Obrador is an idiot paid by cartels.
Viva el ejército mexicano!!!
Dont blame them.only way to win the drug war
They were criminals, I hate it when journalists or newscasts try to criminalize and blame Mexican soldiers for doing their job. They are military, they were trained to kill, not to detain, they are not police and they should be allowed to act like what they are.
Support to our mexican military 🇲🇽
Doesn’t matter..
With cartel no any OTHER way….
CARTEL are ASSASSIN’S !
my respect for these soldiers, that how u deal with lunatics, and all these cartel members
They are getting rid of these beasts
it’s one of those things were, it just has to happen. The cartels are terrorists. They’re dangerous, and they’re never going to be a net positive to Mexico… time to flatly remove them…. They’re a cancer
Life is a product of decisions. Many are where they are today because of their past decisions and will be where they will be in the future because of decisions made now.
caught in 4k 🙂 , I wonder what will be shown if there is cameras all over the place in the Arab world
Bien hecho!
Yeah go ahead and fire the good the guys. They’ll joint the rival cartel inside knowledge of police tactic or worse
Good job, troops. Taking out the trash and making Mexico safe. THUMBS UP!
Those “human rights” morons care more about these savage criminals than about the entire innocent and hard working populations they have living in fear.
unlawful only if caught..otherwise murder approved by govt
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The mexican cartel criminals are not any nicer with their motis aparandi of kidnapping, extortion, explotation of human trafficking and drug wars, with drug trafficking. So the surveillance camera once again happened to record in mexico the truth between the two evils that coexist within each other and have existed for centuries in mexico and other countries on a global scale. This is clearly the reason why the country of Mexico is considered and rated among one of the most corrupt nations in the world. Who is to say whose right anymore? The truth is that mexican criminal gangs and mexicam criminal drug cartels enjoy the liberties of impunity at such a large scale that the mexican music industry is constantly praising those type of criminals with folk songs known as corridos. And then mexican citizens pretend to be outraged at camera clips like this one. Go figure!
Fight fire with fire.
Give Them A Medal😊
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Why don’t you show in the video the 50 caliber weapons that the hitmen have?
ACAB & AMAB 🌐👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿🐱🎇
No pasaron la fase de grupos.
You want to do something NOW? THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR FAR TOO LONG!!!
💯support to the Mexican Army 🇲🇽
😂 nothing to investigate
Brics for peace ay,,ya ok
Could happen
The Cartels do worse.
I am on the Mexican soldier side those guys they killed are probably piece of 💩 cartel members hahaha 😅
Whoever post this video you talking out your a** how do you know they planted those guns? Those guns are probably in their vehicles and they’re more than likely cartel members! And on top of that they got killed because they thought that they’re going to get rescued by the other cartel members who are shooting at the soldiers at the time they were being arrested duh people don’t be fooled
That president is corrupt of course hes backing the cartel members who got blasted and I enjoyed watching that video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Live by the gun die by the gun…cartels show no mercy why should the army ?
Reminds me of my home Pakistan. The Mohajir and Baluch and Pashtun community are treated with same respect by Pakistan Rangers.
My personal take on the execution is that they came under assault from other cartel forces and possibly feared that the captured cartel members would be retaken by the cartel so they executed them to prevent that from happening. Imo they deserved it, cartels ruin the world.
They were hitmen not civilians.
LOL he is talking about the cartels human rights violation….the cartels human rights???? They who are executing army personel,police personel and other citizens with no remorse. A BIG FU!!!!!
Why you edited out the four 50 caliber guns the Mexican army find in side the black truck this cartel members had it coming well deserved
Wait i know what the Mexican Army should do… they should simply make an apology letter and tell them that they’re sorry that it was a mistaken identity just like the Mexican cartel kills innocent people all the time and then just say I’m sorry it was a mistaken identity 😂
Bullshit cartel butchering ppl
Gr8 army
F them cartel members. And how many people have they killed? Karma!
And f u aljazzera. Trying to make killers victims! Report on your own terrorists
This is what happens when human rights protect more the criminals than the service members what a shame for these brave soldiers
When an english making comments, stupidity comes on
Your comment doesn’t even make sense grammatically, the irony.
Y eso es lo que nos hace ser visto un país tercermundista.
No digas mamads
No, tercermundista significa que no eres del bloque de los gringos ni soviético.
The Demand for drugs is a Caucasian things
The most drug addicted race starts with a B my guy
Respect to the Mexican soldiers who choose to serve their country, rather than greed and evil with the cartels.
Maybe they should of work in a factory instead of narcotics and human trafficking so that the mexican army the only organization taking them on would not of had to plant guns on them
You obviously don’t know the cartel
Good..
Good job getting rid of Al SHABAB of Mexico cartels
Muchos comentan sin saber las leyes mexicanas son corruptas en menos de un año estan libres y buscando venganza con la familia de los militares por eso los soldados los ejecutan para proteger a sus familias literalmente no solo se juegan sus vidas en el trabajo también esta en juego la vida de sus familias los carteles son despiadados y en verdad los militares nunca matan civiles inocentes los de la camioneta eran asesinos que los habían atacado por eso el pueblo mexicano apoya a su ejército saben que es lo que se necesita
Sorry but all of u are stupid if u think soldiers are free to do anything but order
Do you see the reason for the level of violence in Mexico? the government and human waste have their hands tiedIt is unfair that they criticize you for “not doing the job” but when they do they are tried and put in jail “for killing a heavily armed civilian and in armored vans”
They were cartel members not regular men
I approve of the military’s behavior.
Do the cartels respect human rights?
Hang’em
These criminals are scum but shooting a handcuffed person is vile.
it seems as the cartels have likely killed members of the Mexican army and they exacted retribution. this is war …. Not some Al jazzera princess story… got it? Get it? Good !
Plus, the ones in the white chevy weren’t inocent people nor the ones punching the military
How come you don’t talk about when sicarios kill police soldados o jente k trabaja para El govierno
They deserve a medal.
They were cartel members, if they would of taken them to prision, the corrupted judges would of let them free, and who knows how many people they yad already killed and would killed, soldiers family was at risk too if they would of let them loose.
that is military smart . you are pin down and more bad guys are coming why would you allow them to gather the prisoners and all turn against you…. this is life or death not candy world
Very good job from my Mexican military, less garbage in the streets, keep cleaning my beautiful country we need peace. 🇲🇽
So they broke what law? There’s no law today in Mexico!!!I’m glad this happened, because those thugs were robing, killing inocent people, happens every day!!! they would of killed all the soldiers if they had a chance!!!
The Mexican military are heroes! Viva Mexico