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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 840626" data-attributes="member: 12952">Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Durango&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Mexican cityDurango finds it’s now in the center of gangs’ carnageBy DUDLEY ALTHAUSHOUSTON CHRONICLEDURANGO, Mexico — For&nbsp; weeks now, searchers have been pulling desiccated bones and flesh from&nbsp; the grudging dirt of empty lots and backyard gardens in this arid city.At least 226 bodies, or parts of them, have been gathered so far,&nbsp; including eight reportedly unearthed Thursday from a new grave,&nbsp; discovered in the backyard of a house in an upper middle class&nbsp; neighborhood near Durango’s modern shopping mall.The harvest from the clandestine graves here already has surpassed&nbsp; the discoveries in San Fernando, the farm town near the South Texas&nbsp; border whose own mass tombs were uncovered last month. And with&nbsp; hundreds, perhaps thousands, still missing in Durango and surrounding&nbsp; states, the hunt seems far from done.“This was a surprise even for us,” said Jorge-Antonio Santiago,&nbsp; secretary general of Durango state’s human rights commission, which&nbsp; keeps a partial tally of the battered, dead and vanished of the gang&nbsp; criminal carnage flaying much of northern Mexico. “We had no idea of&nbsp; anything of this magnitude.”Only one of the Durango bodies has been identified so far – and just&nbsp; three of 183 in San Fernando. Most of the others may never be. They,&nbsp; like as many as 10,000 people gone missing in four years of Mexico’s hyper-carnage, will remain known but to God.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 840626, member: 12952"] [B]Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Durango[/B] [B]Secret graves, nameless dead haunt Mexican city Durango finds it’s now in the center of gangs’ carnage By DUDLEY ALTHAUS HOUSTON CHRONICLE DURANGO, Mexico — [/B]For weeks now, searchers have been pulling desiccated bones and flesh from the grudging dirt of empty lots and backyard gardens in this arid city. At least 226 bodies, or parts of them, have been gathered so far, including eight reportedly unearthed Thursday from a new grave, discovered in the backyard of a house in an upper middle class neighborhood near Durango’s modern shopping mall. The harvest from the clandestine graves here already has surpassed the discoveries in San Fernando, the farm town near the South Texas border whose own mass tombs were uncovered last month. And with hundreds, perhaps thousands, still missing in Durango and surrounding states, the hunt seems far from done. “This was a surprise even for us,” said Jorge-Antonio Santiago, secretary general of Durango state’s human rights commission, which keeps a partial tally of the battered, dead and vanished of the gang criminal carnage flaying much of northern Mexico. “We had no idea of anything of this magnitude.” Only one of the Durango bodies has been identified so far – and just three of 183 in San Fernando. Most of the others may never be. They, like as many as 10,000 people gone missing in four years of Mexico’s hyper-carnage, will remain known but to God. [/QUOTE]

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