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Thursday, 21 February, 2002, 08:08 GMT
Women demand Mexico murder probe
![]() In November, eight bodies were found near the US border
A coalition of women's groups from Mexico and the United States has called for a joint taskforce to investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez. The Inter-American Human Rights Commission says almost 270 have been murdered in the town since 1993.
At a press conference in the Texan border town of El Paso, Texas state congresswoman Norma Chaves said the failure to stop the nine-year killing spree was a disgrace. She called for urgent action. "We have a serious human rights issue here," she said. "The brutal murders of women have been allowed to continue unabated." Reward The Coalition on Violence Against Women and Families on the Border, the women's group headed by Mrs Chaves, said it also wanted to set up a reward fund for information that led to the arrest of the killers. Most of the victims were raped and strangled, their bodies left in mass graves in the desert surrounding Ciudad Juarez.
Although a number of people have been arrested in connection with the killings, the murders have continued. In November, the bodies of eight women were discovered in a cotton field near the border with the United States. In the light of the public outcry that followed, the Mexican President Vincente Fox called for federal officers to help the local authorities investigate the unsolved murders. |
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