Mexico missing students search turns up 129 bodies and 60 secret graves

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico missing students search turns up 129 bodies and 60 secret graves
Published 27/07/2015 | 01:52

The search for 43 missing college students in Mexico has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months.


None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala last September, and authorities do not believe any will be.

Prosecutors say the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their bodies in a case that has put attention on the huge number of people who have gone missing in Guerrero and other Mexican states where drug violence is widespread.

The number of bodies and graves found from October to May could possibly be higher than in its report, the attorney general's office said.

Its response to a freedom of information request from The Associated Press covers only those instances in which its mass grave specialists got involved.

More:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/mexico-missing-students-search-turns-up-129-bodies-and-60-secret-graves-31405773.html

[LeftOfWest]

1. Oh well Judi Lynn

they are just humans.

Important posts.

[djean111]

2. Every once in a while I will watch one of those House Hunters International shows,

and when I see happy people choosing between homes in any Latin American country, I think oh, dear, isn't that a dangerous country to live in? And then I think, well, I live in Florida. But Mexico sounds like an iffy place to move to. But gorgeous. I also have to laugh when some couples say no, I refuse to pay more than $1.1 million. Strikes me as funny, for some reason. Or two guys saying well, this large island in Fiji seems worth $12 million, but those six kayaks look shabby. That's probably why they have $12 million and I do not.

[MisterP]

3. Mexico had a dirty war, too, letting the One Big Cartel set up links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War_%28Mexico%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_F%C3%A9lix_Gallardo

[Judi Lynn]

5. The information in your two links should have been part of our perceptions long ago.

Very grateful for the chance to go over this now, with your help.

So much was concealed. It's a gift to learn more of what has been missing.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Search for missing Mexican students turns up 129 bodies unrelated to case

Search for missing Mexican students turns up 129 bodies unrelated to case

Government’s version of events questioned as none of the corpses found in 60 graves have been connected to the 43 youths who disappeared on 26 September

Nina Lakhani in Mexico City
Monday 27 July 2015 11.14 EDT

The search for 43 Mexican student teachers who disappeared after they were attacked by cartel gunmen and corrupt municipal police officers in September has unearthed the bodies of at least 129 other murder victims.

The corpses were found in 60 clandestine graves across Guerrero, the southern state where the youths vanished 10 months ago, the attorney general’s office said on Monday. None is thought to be linked to the case of the students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college.

The new figures, which were released following a freedom of information request by the Associated Press, have prompted fresh anger at the government’s failure to tackle Mexico’s epidemic of disappearances – and its refusal to investigate allegations that the army may have also played a role in the Ayotzinapa attack.

Only 16 of the 129 bodies have so far been identified; 20 were women, 92 were men, while the gender of the rest has yet to be determined.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/27/mexico-search-missing-students-129-bodies