From Homeland Security NewsWire:
Mexico warMore mass graves unearthed in Mexico
Published 12 April 2011
The number of bodies found in mass graves in north-eastern Mexico over the past week has risen to 88, after 16 more corpses were discovered; the graves are the largest concentration ever found in one area in Mexico; a gang member who participated in the killing told police that most of the victims were travelling through the area on buses; the motive for the killings remains unclear; the graves resemble the discovery last August of the bodies of seventy-two Central and South American migrants, who were killed in the same town for refusing to join the ranks of the cartel which had abducted them
Mass graves believed to contain Latino migrants // Source: presstv.ir
The number of bodies found in mass graves in north-eastern Mexico over the past week has risen to 88, after 16 more corpses were discovered. Investigators found four new graves in San Fernando, not far from the U.S. border.
The BBC reports that they were tipped-off by a suspect who was detained on Saturday. Police said he had confessed to the kidnapping and subsequent killing of dozens of victims, who were travelling through the area on buses. Last Thursday, police found fifty-nine bodies in eight mass graves in San Fernando, in Tamaulipas state. Thirteen more bodies were discovered the following day in two other graves. The graves are the largest concentration ever found in one area in Mexico.
The BBC quotes officials to say that sixteen people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of the mass graves, but the motive for the killings remains unclear.
The gruesome find resembles the discovery last August of the bodies of seventy-two Central and South American migrants, who were killed in the same town for refusing to join the ranks of the cartel which had abducted them.
Tamaulipas state, where the mass graves where found, is at the centre of a bloody battle between rival drug gangs for control of the lucrative drug-smuggling routes to the United States.
Around 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country’s drug cartels.
AFP reports that while authorities have not assigned blame, there is a fierce battle in northeastern Mexico over control of lucrative drug smuggling routes into the United States between the Zetas — a ruthless cartel run by former Mexican anti-drug commandos — and their former employers, the Gulf Cartel.
Seven major drug gangs are operating in Mexico.
In addition to the 35,000 killed, the country’s Human Rights Commission said more than 5,000 people have been reported missing in Mexico, and many are presumed to be victims of the drug war.
Mexico warMore mass graves unearthed in Mexico
Published 12 April 2011
The number of bodies found in mass graves in north-eastern Mexico over the past week has risen to 88, after 16 more corpses were discovered; the graves are the largest concentration ever found in one area in Mexico; a gang member who participated in the killing told police that most of the victims were travelling through the area on buses; the motive for the killings remains unclear; the graves resemble the discovery last August of the bodies of seventy-two Central and South American migrants, who were killed in the same town for refusing to join the ranks of the cartel which had abducted them
Mass graves believed to contain Latino migrants // Source: presstv.ir
The number of bodies found in mass graves in north-eastern Mexico over the past week has risen to 88, after 16 more corpses were discovered. Investigators found four new graves in San Fernando, not far from the U.S. border.
The BBC reports that they were tipped-off by a suspect who was detained on Saturday. Police said he had confessed to the kidnapping and subsequent killing of dozens of victims, who were travelling through the area on buses. Last Thursday, police found fifty-nine bodies in eight mass graves in San Fernando, in Tamaulipas state. Thirteen more bodies were discovered the following day in two other graves. The graves are the largest concentration ever found in one area in Mexico.
The BBC quotes officials to say that sixteen people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of the mass graves, but the motive for the killings remains unclear.
The gruesome find resembles the discovery last August of the bodies of seventy-two Central and South American migrants, who were killed in the same town for refusing to join the ranks of the cartel which had abducted them.
Tamaulipas state, where the mass graves where found, is at the centre of a bloody battle between rival drug gangs for control of the lucrative drug-smuggling routes to the United States.
Around 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country’s drug cartels.
AFP reports that while authorities have not assigned blame, there is a fierce battle in northeastern Mexico over control of lucrative drug smuggling routes into the United States between the Zetas — a ruthless cartel run by former Mexican anti-drug commandos — and their former employers, the Gulf Cartel.
Seven major drug gangs are operating in Mexico.
In addition to the 35,000 killed, the country’s Human Rights Commission said more than 5,000 people have been reported missing in Mexico, and many are presumed to be victims of the drug war.
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