MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A military court has charged two Mexican generals with murder in the deaths of 134 people during the 1970s, a newspaper reported Friday.
A military judge charged Gen. Francisco Quiros and Gen. Arturo Acosta on Thursday with first-degree murder, Reforma newspaper said. It appeared to be the first time anyone in Mexico has ever faced charges related to the country's so-called dirty war, in which dozens of leftist students and rebels were killed.
A spokesman for Mexico's military justice system was unavailable for comment early Friday.
Both Quiros and Acosta are already in jail on charges they helped protect members of Mexico's Juarez drug cartel.
Both have been linked to the disappearances of dozens of activists, some of whom used ambushes, kidnappings and bank robberies in battles against the army throughout the 1970s.
The groups largely rose up after 1968, when the army killed dozens of students during a mass protest at Mexico City's Tlatelolco square.