In the Mexican border city of Juarez, thousands of army troops have taken over control of the local police force in an effort to win back the city's streets from violent drug cartels.
But Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson, the ombudsman for the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission, says the military shouldn't be in charge of security in Juarez. And he says the first wave of soldiers who arrived a year ago have tortured and even killed criminal suspects.
"We have registered 160 cases of abuse committed by the military here in Ciudad Juarez," Hickerson says. "And the majority of those cases were of torture." Hickerson says that when the soldiers arrived more than a year ago, the new troops tried to quickly gather intelligence on the local cartels by beating information out of suspects.
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