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The funeral ceremony of seven peasants killed on 18 October 1997 in the community of Vergel by the paramilitary group UNAL (Unidad Nacional Lombardista), which had been trained and armed by the Mexican army.
Eight peasants, leaders of the organization Lucha campesina of Vergel, in the region of Las Margaritas, were arrested on the night of 18 October 1997 by 52 armed men, members of the paramilitary group and taken to the Casa Higidal, the community’s meeting house. They came out in handcuffs, were taken to the mountains and walked several kilometres up to a 40-metres-deep crevasse. When they arrived there, one of them succeeded in fleeing, but the other seven men were shot and thrown into the hole. The escaped man revealed the facts right away, but the authorities did not do anything about it before February 1998, when he spoke to a group of journalists at a press conference. On 16 February 1998 the bodies were found by the fire brigade, who went down into the crevasse.
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