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trying to find the missing students they came across some mass graves.
Mexico is the biggest cemetery in the world. Wherever you dig you
will find bodies.Forensic doctor
They were filled with human remains. Shockingly the bodies had nothing to
do with the missing students - they were some of the tens of thousands of
people missing across the country.
"Mexico is the biggest cemetery in the world. Wherever you dig you will find
bodies or body parts," I was told by a foreign forensic doctor who has
worked in Mexico many times.
"The truth is that the Mexican government knows about it, but it will be a
huge international scandal to dig up thousands of bodies and then you have
to identify them. It's a huge task that needs political will. Not sure they
want to do it."
More than 100,000 people have died in Mexico since 2006 when former
The gang took the students to a municipal dump where they were executed
and their bodies then burned for 15 hours with wood, gasoline and plastic.
The remains were put in plastic bags and thrown in a nearby river.
When you go to bed with the devil, you wake up with the
devil.Mexican politician
Murillo said the government will do its best to identify them and to give
them back to the families. According to experts, it will be extremely difficult
to identify what has been found.
But even more difficult is for the families to believe in the state which took
away their kids in the first place. The pain of the parents has found a huge
echo in Mexico among millions of people who for some reason felt mute
until now . "We want them alive" shouted one of the parents of the 43
students outside the presidential palace in Mexico City over the weekend.
Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda. Credit: Reuters.
The government claims 74 people have been arrested, including the ousted
mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda, 36
police officers, and several gang members of Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.
A Mexican politician told me once: "When you go to bed with the devil, you
wake up with the devil." That is exactly what's happening in Mexico. After
years of living in a marriage between criminal organisations and the
government, Mexicans are waking up.
The protests will continue, and this event might even mark the beginning of
a new Mexican revolution - this time not against a military dictator but
against a corrupt government and the brutal cartels.
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