“The first attempts are now being made to find some of those who were buried in mass graves in the 1960s and 70s.”

An hour or so north of Acapulco lies the town of Atoyac …. We had come to find its former army base.

… Up to 470 people are thought to have been tortured and killed at this one location, we were told. And there were many other camps.

It had taken years to persuade the government to allow this dig to take place, Mexico’s first.

… There are documented cases of up to 2,000 people who are known to have disappeared during this period.

- Duncan Kennedy @ BBC News: Link.

~ Karl Jones

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