Fourth Generation Warfare Continues in Mexico

From the Daily Mail:

Vigilantes faced off with the Mexican army after they were asked by residents of a town terrorised by drug cartels to help them protect themselves. 

Hundreds of men armed mainly with shotguns, rifles and pistols entered a town near Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico's Guerrero state, after a wave of robberies, murders and extortion. 

The vigilantes from the United Front for Security and Development in Guerrero State, or FUSDEG, had been invited by residents of Petaquillas, a community on the front line of a turf war between two powerful organised crime groups. 

But after they set up a checkpoint controlling access to Chilpancingo, around 200 soldiers rushed to the scene and threatened to disarm the community policemen, sparking a tense stand-off.

It is more important for the government to maintain its monopoly of force than to fulfill the fundamentals of its social contract with its people. But through such actions, the government will loose its legitimacy, and actually cause more non-state groups to take up arms.