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Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 196
Correction: It was previously erroneously reported that the fifth gravesite was near Gomez Palacio, several hundred kilometers east of Durango city. In fact the fifth site was within Durango city limits at a similarly named ejido (farm). For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here.The total of victims found in graves in Durango, Durango rose to 188 Wednesday as the fourth and fifth gravesites yielded 16 more victims, according to Mexican news reports. Soldiers in the Valle del Guadiana colonty exhumed eight more victims, seven men and a woman Wednesday. The new total makes these graves, inasmuch as they are scattered through a large Mexican metropolitan area, the worse mass murder in Mexican history, eclipsing the San Fernando, Tamaulipas graves by 13 dead. To see the last two Rantburg reports on the San Fernando, Tamaulipas mass grave, click here and here. The motive for the two crimes are apparently different, as the San Fernando murders were apparently part of a terror scheme that included a putative recruitment drive by the Los Zetas criminal gang. The campaign took place over a number of months beginning last August. Part of the scene included hijacking buses that stopped in San Fernando. Although it is still early in the investigation, the Durango murders appear to be basic criminal operations in Durango city, revenge, kidnapping and the like committed over a number of years dating back to 2007, a year into Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on the cartels. A spokesman for the Durango attorney general office (FGE) said that forensic work has begun concentrating on the nexus between criminal gangs in the city and on missing persons presumed to have been kidnapped. To see the last two Rantburg reports on the Durango mass murders, click here and here, and follow the links. Posted by: badanov 2011-05-12 |
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