Families of Mass Grave Victims Prepare Rights Case Against Mexico teleSUR English | |
go to original May 30, 2016 |
Forensic experts and officials started exhuming more than 100 bodies last week at two mass graves south of Mexico City. The burial site was used by authorities in the central state of Morelos to dispose of bodies they could not identify. (Al Jazeera English)
Families of the assumed victims uncovered in a mass grave in the town of Tetelcingo, in the central Mexican state of Morelos, are preparing to file human rights case against the local government, the newspaper La Jornada reported on Monday.
The complaint will be submitted to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, IACHR, once experts complete the exhumation and forensic analysis of the estimated 150 bodies illegally buried in the clandestine grave.
The case will accuse Mexico of violating the human rights of the victims, buried without being identified, whose families were denied access to information about their whereabouts by the Morelos state prosecutor’s office.
The exhumation launched one week ago under the watchful eyes of families hoping to find out of their missing loved ones were hidden in the two nearly 33-feet deep pits of the mass grave, discovered last November. As remains are removed, experts have taken DNA samples in order to identify the bodies.
The case will ask the IACHR to determine whether the treatment of the Tetelcingo mass grave victims can be considered crimes against humanity.
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Related: Mexico: UN Supervising Exhumation of Mass Graves (Anadolu Agency)
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