Court Orders Investigation Into 2010 Massacre of Central American Migrants Clayton Conn - Television del Sur
go to original March 6, 2016

Families of 72 migrants massacred in Mexico in 2010 have traveled to Mexico to demand truth and justice in the case that exposed what activists say are the failures of the Mexican authorities, the extent of power of organized crime and the dangers faced by both migrants and Mexicans. (teleSUR English)

The Mexican Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney General's Office to open an investigation into the killings of 72 migrants that occurred six years ago in the town of San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

The massacre took place in August 2010, when 58 men and 14 women from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil were killed. The migrants were expected to be on their way to the United States.

The remains of the bodies were found in 2011 in several mass graves in the San Fernando region.

Officials believe local members of the violent Los Zetas drug cartel were involved in the crime, but the state has failed to bring the culprits to justice.

For more than five years, relatives of the victims have been requesting an inquiry into the deaths and that those responsible be prosecuted, but they have seen very little success on the matter.

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