Mexico looks for "dirty war" graves on military base

By Gerardo Torres ATOYAC DE ALVAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Forensics experts began digging for secret graves in an army base in southwest Mexico this week to find proof of government atrocities during the country's 1970s 'dirty war.' Using high-tech scanners, picks and shovels, they searched for bodies of community leaders who were abducted by soldiers, taken to the isolated base at the Pacific town of Atoyac de Alvarez in Guerrero state and never heard from again. The team is headed by Argentine experts with experience digging up evidence from that nation's dirty war. Atoyac de Alvarez was the base of an armed guerrilla movement in the 1970s, and some 470 people "disappeared" from the town when security forces and senior government officials crushed leftists and students. Survivors hope that finding the remains of their loved... [read full story]