Mexican Militiamen disarm and arrest corrupt Police Officers and Rid town of Knights Templar drug ca
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Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal police in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and the police locals say are in league with the gang members.
Around 600 members of local 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.
The battle was the latest in a long-running war between the drugs gang in Mexico's south-west and local residents who say state and federal police are not protecting them.
Small groups of local vigilantes took up arms and joined forces to storm Paracuaro, headquarters of the Knights Templar gang, where they arrested police officers and seized control of the town in a blaze of gunfire.
They drove into the town in black armoured vehicles shouting 'Don't be frightened, we are vigilantes', before expelling drugs traffickers, whom they accuse of kidnapping people and bribing them to make money. Several gun battles were reported, leaving at least one dead.
Police officers, whom the vigilantes accuse of being in league with the cash-rich drug gangs, were rounded up by machine-gun toting locals, along with others suspected of associating with gang members, and a checkpoint was set up at the entrance to Paracuaro.[/quote]
[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534496/Mexican-vigilante-gunmen-disarm-local-POLICE-rid-town-feared-Knights-Templar-drug-cartel.html]Daily Mail[/url]
Long live the North American Militiaman.
Some pretty awesome images are in the link by the way.
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I hope they don't actually consider themselves Knights Templar.
Are they funded by a rival cartel though?
[QUOTE=draugur;43452589]Are they funded by a rival cartel though?[/QUOTE]
Not according to the article, it says it's a group of residents, but I hope not.
[QUOTE=draugur;43452589]Are they funded by a rival cartel though?[/QUOTE]
I've heard so, also it's worth noting that the Knights Templar were also originally a vigilante group (called La Familia Michoacana) as well.
I wouldn't mess with drug cartels. fuck that shit.
Are some of them holding muskets?
Good.
It seems like a lot of people in Mexico are getting tired of the cartels shit. I'm glad they're finally starting to stand up to them.
Why not intervene now before they turn into more bad guys?
[QUOTE=draugur;43452589]Are they funded by a rival cartel though?[/QUOTE]
Judging from the weapons they're using I'd say they aren't funded by anybody.
I'm surprised Mexico hasn't declared martial law yet because of all the shit going down there.
The Assassin's Creed series just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
[QUOTE=draugur;43452589]Are they funded by a rival cartel though?[/QUOTE]
Well, the cartels doesn't take prisoners. They usually don't have problems executing men, women and children to get their point across.
Also these guys mainly look like older men who has stopped taking shit from the gangs.
[QUOTE=Maegord;43454890]The Assassin's Creed series just keeps getting weirder and weirder.[/QUOTE]
You better snip that or Ubisoft will get ideas!
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;43455491]You better snip that or Ubisoft will get ideas![/QUOTE]
But you already quoted it!
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;43455491]You better snip that or Ubisoft will get ideas![/QUOTE]
Actually, I would play that game.
Good to see some good news for once coming from our southern neighbors, keep up the good work Mexico
Hopefully this vigilantism doesn't spin out of control into mob law.
[QUOTE=Maegord;43454890]The Assassin's Creed series just keeps getting weirder and weirder.[/QUOTE]
Time for me to post this again.
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[B]Vigilantes in Mexico have clashed with soldiers deployed in the western state of Michoacan to disarm the groups, who last week launched an offensive against the Knights Templar drug cartel.[/B]
Most groups have ignored a government order to lay down their weapons.
In the town of Antunez, they say soldiers shot dead at least three people from the community, including an 11-year-old girl.
Vigilante groups have now taken control of large areas of Michoacan state.
There is a strong police and military presence in the town of Apatzingan, considered the stronghold of the Knights Templar cartel.
Most businesses around the town are closed in a form of self-imposed curfew, says the BBC's Will Grant in Michoacan.
[B]'Mere puppets'[/B]
"There is no law here. The decisions are taken here in the mountains, in the hideouts of the Knights Templar leaders," Apatzingan Catholic priest Gregorio Lopez told the BBC.
"They are the ones who decide. Here the public institutions are mere puppets," said Father Lopez.
On Monday, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong had a meeting with the state governor in the regional capital, Morelia, and announced the deployment of federal troops to quell the violence.
Mr Osorio Chong said the vigilante groups should either join the police force or disarm.
Soldiers and marines have moved into towns seized in the past week by the vigilantes - Nueva Italia, Paracuaro and Antunez.
Leaders of the "self-defence groups" have given contradictory statements as to whether they would disarm.
Some of them initially indicated that they would follow the government orders, but most of the groups have now rejected orders to disarm.[/quote]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25739937]BBC[/url]
Oh boy, i understand why both sides do like they do but they need to stop before this spins way out of control.
I saw some pretty gnarly shit on /k/ about this.
I guess the zeta's have been dressing up in military uniforms,
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daym
This is some crazy stuff, holy shit.
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where the hell do they get their skull balaclavas anyway
[QUOTE=Cone;43548394]where the hell do they get their skull balaclavas anyway[/QUOTE]
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Something similar happened in my country, back in the 90s. The army began to issue shotguns and proper firearms training to peasants, creating Self-Defense Comitees. At first they were just supposed to defend their villages, as the terrorists were also beginning to clash with the people they claimed to be fighting for.
But eventually the peasants began to hit the terrorists where it [i]really[/i] hurt, and the military finished the job.
[QUOTE=T553412;43548608]Something similar happened in my country, back in the 90s. The army began to issue shotguns and proper firearms training to peasants, creating Self-Defense Comitees. At first they were just supposed to defend their villages, as the terrorists were also beginning to clash with the people they claimed to be fighting for.
But eventually the peasants began to hit the terrorists where it [i]really[/i] hurt, and the military finished the job.[/QUOTE]
Problem is in Mexico is that both sides are almost equally corupt and no action can be done since it's a big back and forth game of catch regarding bribery.
Do I think everyone wants to be corrupt? Not really. But you're kind of force to or else your family will be decapitated and displayed on a bridge.
You can make more money in the cartel, there's a really incompetent government, just loads of really bad things and it all crashes down on the mexican people. Then the government goes and takes shots at the people who try and defend from the cartels with their militias, since they're not an autonomous armed place, and it's just a big mess.
Like honestly, best thing would be to send some North American task forces down since were the second most affected by the drug war.
[editline]15th January 2014[/editline]
Okay so I'm looking at the numbers. There's around 125,000 cartel members detained and only 8,500 convicted.
If there's a 90 percent difference, that's kind of saying something.
The Anti-Drug Militias have begun to return land to villagers which have been taken over by drug cartels.
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TANCITARO, Mexico – Mexican vigilante militias battling drug-traffickers in the restive state of Michoacán said Thursday they had returned several hundred acres of land seized from villagers by the notorious Knights Templar cartel.
The symbolic handover of some 654 acres (265 hectares) of land, which included many avocado and lemon orchards, took place in the village square of Tancitaro in the Michoacán highlands.
“Citizens, businessmen, farmers, people in the communities are bewildered by these narcos. Let’s get them out of our land,” militia leader Estanislao Beltran told AFP at the end of the ceremony.
Civilians first took up arms in February 2013 to oust the Knights Templar cartel from the region, saying local police were either colluding with gangs or unable to deal with the violence and extortion rackets.
Since then, officials have alleged that at least some civilian militias were backed by a cartel, with critics noting that they used unlawful assault rifles that gangs usually own.
Mexico’s federal police and army troops are currently waging a major operation aimed at wresting back control of Michoacán from the Knights Templar gang.[/quote]
[url=http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/01/17/mexico-anti-drug-militias-return-land-to-villagers]Tico Times[/url]
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The Militia has reported to have amassed roughly 25,000 members, and is stating that they have another 140,000 in "training". Reports have also come forward that the militia and the Mexican army have both suffered casualties in the ongoing fighting.
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