Is this the one near the border with the US? I remember an interview a few years back with the Mars Volta saying where they grow up/hung out as kids used to have many womens bodies turn up or women just go missing and the local police did absolutely nothing.
4250 bodies found in Mexico
Yeah, Juárez is across the river from El Paso. Basically the same city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Juárez
Mexican City Exhumes Thousands of Bodies
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powertotheimagination wrote:
Is this the one near the border with the US? I remember an interview a few years back with the Mars Volta saying where they grow up/hung out as kids used to have many womens bodies turn up or women just go missing and the local police did absolutely nothing.
Yeah At The Drive In's biggest song is about it.
jef costello wrote:
Apparently in a mass grave outside Ciudad Juárez they fund all of the bodies, mostly of men. The city is famous for the massive numbers of women murdered or disappeared over the last 20 years.
They found the bodies there.... because that is where they put them. They are common graves for unclaimed bodies, that they are going to do DNA tests on. No big story.
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They found the bodies there.... because that is where they put them. They are common graves for unclaimed bodies, that they are going to do DNA tests on. No big story.
I think its pretty big news. Unless its a mass grave of old people dumped by families there could be alot of 'disappeared' people there and if some sort of peace and rest could be provided to the families through DNA testing then that is a 'big story'. Depending on the state of the bodies there may even be evidence of murder, although how far this will be investigated I don't know.
Am I missing something? This is law enforcement just now getting around to doing, what they should have done a long time ago. The OP made it sound like all these bodies were just discovered a few days ago.
It is "mass" common graves, of bodies that were never claimed from the corner over the years. No?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7128904.stm
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Bodies in Juarez graves exhumed
Forensic teams in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico are unearthing more than 4,000 bodies buried in common graves.
A local government official said DNA samples from the bodies would be compared to those of missing persons.
It is thought that some of the bodies could belong to women killed in a wave of unsolved murders that began in the city in 1993.
*********************The official said the corpses were buried in common graves because they had not been claimed after 90 days.*******************
The bodies being exhumed were buried between 1991 and 2005 - all unclaimed bodies buried since 2005 have been identified first.
More than 300 women have been murdered in the town in Chihuahua state since 1993, and an unknown number have gone missing.
There is no generally accepted motive for the killings.
They have been variously attributed to serial killers, drug cartels and domestic violence. Some of the killings are believed to have been sexually motivated.
Many of the victims were poor working mothers employed in factories in the industrial city, which is on the border with Texas.
There have been several arrests, but the killings have continued.
Apparently in a mass grave outside Ciudad Juárez they fund all of the bodies, mostly of men. The city is famous for the massive numbers of women murdered or disappeared over the last 20 years.