Mexico: rights activists threatened as more mass graves unearthed http://www.ww4report.com/node/9829

The number of bodies found in clandestine graves in the northern Mexican city of Durango reached 104 after the discovery of eight more corpses April 27. The total bodies pulled from two sets of clandestine graves this month is now approaching 300, after 183 were also found buried in the border state of Tamaulipas to the northwest. The prosecutor general's office for Durango state said the 104 bodies had been found in hidden graves around the city since April 11, and that they had been buried for at least one year.

The Tamaulipas border city of Matamoros is under heavy occupation by the Mexican armed forces, and members of the local group Defense and Promotion of Human Rights—Emiliano Zapata (DEPRODHEZAC) have been holding a silent protest by driving around town in a car with a banner reading "NO MILITARES." On the morning of April 29, six vehicles full of naval troops arrived at the home of DEPRODHEZAC leader Luz María González Armenta where the car was parked, sealing off the block to all traffic before knocking on the door. González and her family members were interrogated about the banner in a "threatening and intimidatory manner," and told that if they did not support the military they supported the "others" (i.e. the narcos). (DEPRODHEZAC press release, April 29)