Saturday, April 30, 2011

Globe Throws Dirt on Mexican Mass Graves

The item never appeared in my printed paper:

"59 bodies found in 8 pits in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Fifty-nine bodies were found buried yesterday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said.

Security forces stumbled on the site as they were investigating reports that passengers had been pulled off several buses by gunmen in the area in what may have been an attempt at forced recruitment by a drug gang....

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Also see: Mexico's Mass Graves

Yeah, how is that drug war going again?