Three women who volunteered to investigate the massacre of 193 people in Mexico say they later found out they were being investigated by prosecutors in what one of them describes as an 'attack on democracy.'
The three women said Wednesday their phone calls had been traced and they had been placed under surveillance.
In 2011, authorities found 48 clandestine graves containing the bodies of 193 people in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Most had their skulls crushed with sledgehammers, and many were Central American migrants.It was later revealed the victims had been pulled off passing buses by the old Zetas drug cartel, and forced to fight each other with hammers or be killed, if they refused to work for the cartel.
On Wednesday, the three investigators appeared at a news conference with human rights groups and relatives of the victims killed in 2011, to say the investigation against them posed a threat to the rights of victims to be represented and to find out the truth.
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