Cuatro Caminos -. A spokesman for the paramilitary, neighborhood groups facing drug trafficking in Michoacan, told AFP that soldiers fired dawn Tuesday against civilians and killed four people, information was not confirmed by the authorities.
Beltran Stanislaus spokesman explained that a military convoy was presented in early Tuesday in the community of Cuatro Caminos, Michoacán, to disarm the paramilitary group the weekend seized control of the area to expel the cartel's Knights Templar .
According to this version, Cuatro Caminos villagers left their houses to require the military to return their weapons to the AUC and blocked the road to the caravan could not leave.
"In this struggle a soldier shot and killed two Community (AUC) at the site where two other people, including a girl of 11, who died en route to hospital wounded," said Beltran.
"We asked (the group of soldiers) to refund us the weapons but the situation became so critical that instead we rafagueó (...) and killed civil people," Beltran said in other statements to the issuing MVS Radio , in which he claimed to have been present at the time of the incident.
The Mexican government said Monday it took control of security in Michoacán and demanded that the members of the paramilitary cease its offensive against the Knights Templar, leaving the people who have taken to arms and return to their communities of origin.
The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and police in the region warned that he would not allow the self-defense employing high-powered weapons not permitted by law, as has been occurring.
Michoacán disarmament "has started and the restoration of law and order," said Tuesday the Attorney General of the Republic, Jesús Murillo Karam, the Televisa network.
Murillo Karam would not confirm whether there were killed in the incidents overnight in Michoacán.
Beltran said that his movement "will never lay down arms" until they are arrested the main leaders of the Knights Templar, and claimed that the leader of the AUC, José Manuel Mireles, "disconnected from reality" and can not make statements be recovering from injuries sustained in a plane crash.
Mireles said Monday in a video that the AUC accepted the government's petition to withdraw but later denied in statements to other media.
They accuse military of killing 4 people in Michoacán
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014