| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2008 
Mexico Dig Fails to Find 1970s Victims
 Associated Press
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| | A policeman stands guard outside a military base at the village of Atoyac in the southwestern state of Guerrero, July 7, 2008. Forensics experts began digging for secret graves in an army base in southwest Mexico earlier this month to find proof of government atrocities during the country's 1970s 'dirty war'. Using high-tech scanners, picks and shovels, they searched for bodies of community leaders who were abducted by soldiers, taken to the isolated base at the Pacific town of Atoyac de Alvarez in Guerrero state and never heard from again. The word on the tape reads: "prohibited". (Reuters/Claudio Vargas) | | |
Mexico City - Prosecutors say excavations at a former military base in southern Mexico have concluded without finding any trace of leftist activists who disappeared in the 1970s.
The Attorney General's Office says investigators dug at 44 sites on the former base in the town of Atoyac de Alvarez in Guerrero state. The digs from July 7 to 28 yielded no sign of human remains.
Relatives of the missing activists believed they might have been buried there.
The office said in a statement Monday that investigations would continue into the fate of people who disappeared during counterinsurgency efforts against rebel groups in the 1970s. Estimates of the number of disappeared range from 275 to more than 1,200.
Atoyac de Alvarez is the birthplace of the Party of the Poor rebel group. |
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