More evidence has emerged that Mexican authorities disposed of the bodies of dissidents in “death flights” during the country's 1965-1990 “dirty war.”.
FILE - A visitor looks at an exhibit during the inauguration of a memorial to victims of Mexico's"dirty war" at the former Federal Security headquarters where student protesters were taken in 1971 following a violent crackdown in Mexico City, June 10, 2019.
Military aviation mechanic Margarito Monroy said he participated in 15 of the flights, and that female victims were sometimes offered release, or the release of their husbands, if they had sex with soldiers, though he never saw any of them released. During a 2012-2017 trial, survivors in Argentina testified that the flights took place at least weekly.
The Mexican executions appeared a bit more rudimentary and less well-planned: fishermen in the area recalled seeing bodies wash up on shore, after which the military allegedly began placing them in sacks weighted down with rocks before tossing them into the ocean. The government has carried out excavations in and around military bases in recent years trying to relocate the remains of those buried in clandestine grave sites, with relatively little success. During the commission's work, the remains of seven victims were recovered.
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