1.0 link 145539 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-giordano/us-secretary-of-state-a-c_b_145539.html Eleven years ago, on December 22, 1997, paramilitary troops in earshot of a federal military base massacred 45 unarmed civilians -- mostly women and children -- as they prayed in a Church in the Mexican town of Acteal. The gunmen -- every major human rights and media organization now agrees -- sliced open the bellies of the pregnant women and shot the 45 Tzotzil-speaking farmers and their children at point blank range. The victims were members of a pacifist...

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