Thousands Of Bodies To Be Exhumed And Tested In Juarez, Mexico

After several years of inaction, Chihuahua state officials, led by state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez, are undergoing exhumations of over 4,000 bodies. DNA testing will then be used in an attempt to identity the dead:

Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general’s office, said the bodies were being exhumed because state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez “wants to bring order and clarity to past police practices.”

It’s difficult to bring order to gross indifference or deceit though, isn’t it?:

Officials did not provide more exact reasons for the exhumations, which they called part of a statewide project that includes at least 180 exhumations in another city.

Authorities said the project was not directly related to the cases of 360 women killed over the past 14 years in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million across from El Paso, Texas.

Victims’ relatives have long demanded that independent investigators take part in the probes, saying efforts by state officials have been tainted by inept officers. Chihuahua state investigators have been accused of losing or contaminating evidence and of other missteps that botched cases.

Please, yes, take care of all this before Jennifer Lopez has time to make another movie about it.

Mexican City Exhumes Thousands of Bodies [Associated Press]