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Mexico to revisit army killings of 22

MEXICO CITY _ As Mexican lawmakers debate expanding the role of the military in the country's drug war, a judge has ordered a new inquiry into whether army commanders ordered soldiers to shoot 22 people in a 2014 incident described by human rights advocates as an extrajudicial massacre.

The federal judge, whose July 31 ruling became public this week, said the federal attorney

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