Thursday, December 6, 2007

Digging Up the Dead in Ciudad Juarez

Mexican authorities are planning to exhume more than 4,000 unidentified remains of people buried in common graves in an effort to identify them using DNA samples. At least 180 other exhumations are planned in another Mexican city. The bodies are thought to have been buried between 1991 - 2005.
Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office, said the bodies were being exhumed because state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez "wants to bring order and clarity to past police practices."
The exhumations are said to be not related to the countless unsolved murders of women in the area .


Source : CNN

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