Acapulco, Guerero, Mexico:

"In the afternoon of 22 March 2002, in the community of Barranca Tecuani, municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero State, 27-year-old Inés Fernández Ortega accompanied by four of her young children, was in her kitchen preparing water when eleven soldiers appeared nearby. Three of them reportedly came into her home and forcefully interrogated her about some meat that was drying outside on the patio, which the soldiers said had been stolen. While she understood the question, Inés, a Tlapaneca (Me’phaa) Indian speaks little Spanish and did not reply. Her children ran off to a relative’s home. Inés Fernández was then reportedly d.

Unable to obtain justice in Mexico, and failed by other institutions – the civilian public prosecution services and civilian courts - this case, and that of Valentina Rosendo Cantú, another indigenous woman from Guerrero who was reportedly d by soldiers a few days earlier on 16 February 2002, have been submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos). This report focuses on the cases of six indigenous women who were reportedly d by soldiers in the state of Guerrero.

Since 1994, several cases of of indigenous women by military personnel have come to national and international attention. They include the cases of Ana, Beatríz and Celia González Pérez, three sisters from the Tzeltal indigenous group, who were d by soldiers in June 1994 at a roadblock near Altamirano in the state of Chiapas. This case, presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 1996, led to a ruling from the Commission in April 2001 which found the Mexican State had violated a range of fundamental human rights contained in the American Convention on Human Rights and the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Tortur e. It concluded that the the three women had suffered constituted tortur e."

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR410332004