Relatives of missing have Mexicans in Veracruz in the east of the country, at least fifty bodies found in a mass grave. Reported activist group Colectivo Solecito. Specialists of the federal police to help with digging up the bodies, according to the organization.
The bodies were found near Colinas de Santa Fe, said spokeswoman Lucia de los Angeles.Her organization is looking for years for people who have been reported missing.
According to the Colectivo are criminal organizations and security forces behind the disappearances. "The drug war has led to much violence in Veracruz," says the spokeswoman. "Besides getting soldiers and police as an escort to use their weapons."
dangerous condition
Veracruz is one of the most dangerous states in Mexico. Several criminal organizations operating in the region and vie for power. In January murdered police officers, who would have been employed by the drug cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, five young people.
Veracruz found mass graves regularly. The authorities say that they are settling of scores between drug cartels, but prove themselves also involved in disappearances, wrote correspondent Marjolein van de Water previously . (+)
Since 2006, nearly hundreds of bodies found in graves illegal in Mexico. Sometimes the mass graves with dozens of corpses in it, sometimes it is a single victim.
Veracruz and other states are governed in Mexico by Los Zetas, one of the seven drug cartels fight each other and the government. A war in which over the past decade have fallen more than a hundred thousand deaths.
Los Zetas arose in the late nineties when an elite unit of the Mexican army defected and joined the Gulf cartel. In 2010 they separated and went as an independent organization further.
By Editorial Volkskrant: Photo: AP
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