Suspected Paramilitary Fighters Held in Chiapas
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Police arrested at least 20 alleged members of a paramilitary group in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
The Peace and Justice group has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people in clashes with supporters of the Zapatista rebels, who led a rebellion in the mid-1990s in the name of Indian rights.
State Atty. Gen. Mariano Herran Salvatti said the men would be charged with homicide, cattle rustling and armed robbery. About 100 police took part in the predawn raid in Tila, about 81 miles north of the colonial tourist town of San Cristobal de Las Casas.
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