IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
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MEXICO is not a safe place to be a trade unionist. Workers labour under restrictive “protection contracts” and attempts to organise unions independent of the bosses can result in beatings, arrests or worse.
It’s not a safe place to be a journalist either: nine have been killed so far this year alone. Human rights activists and social justice campaigners are frequent victims of lethal violence.
The sheer scale of this violence is often ignored. Last month Jan Jarab, representative of the United Nations’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, reported that an astonishing 30,942 people had disappeared in the country in the past nine years.
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