Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat
Silvia Ortiz, spokeswoman for the group Víctimas por sus Desaparecidos en Acción (VIDA), said that last Saturday, they found more skeletal remains, molars, and gun casings on a property in the locality Estación Claudio.
Mexico City, Mexico, December 13, 2016 (SinEmbargo) – More than 5,000 human remains were found on a site in the municipality of Viesca, Coahuila, by the same organization that revealed the existence of the “extermination camp” in the common land of Patrocinio.
Silvia Ortiz, spokeswoman for the group Víctimas por sus Desaparecidos en Acción (VIDA), said that last Saturday, they found more skeletal remains, molars, and gun casings on a property in the locality Estación Claudio.
This is the fourth time that the relatives of the disappeared have searched the place this year. And for two years now, the families of the disappeared have searched the area in search of their relatives.
The property measures around three hectares, although it was only possible to check a quadrant of about 100 square meters, an activist told the newspaper Reforma. Patrocinio measures around 43 hectares (106 acres).
“The forensic police told us that Estación Claudio is a small Patrocinio, they found about 5,000 [remains], but it still hasn’t finished searching the area,” Ortiz told the national media outlet.
“The woman told Reforma that it is necessary to continue the searches on both sides “but not only those of the forensics, the PGJE [Prosecutor General of Justice of the State of Coahuila] was supposed to help them, but no, they are now asking for the collaboration so that they can go to Claudio and for the others to continue in Patrocinio.”
Silvia Ortiz told El Siglo de Torreón that she expects these tasks to intensify at least this week because they will be suspended for the holiday period.
Previously, in the common land of Patrocinio, they found approximately 3,488 skeletal remains, of which the government claimed that they were remains from six bodies, however, in the common land, people were burned and disappeared every day, affirmed the group VIDA.
The organization has dug and looked for bone remains in the area for a year and 10 months. On April 28, 2015, the families of missing persons found human remains, some with cloth.
But they weren’t the only ones. From that moment to date, the group of 50 families that make up VIDA visited the place on 14 occasions and found, in all visits, bone remains in different spots.
Last October 7, 1,147 human remains were found, a figure that in a few days increased.
Source: Sin Embargo