last summer the county found 30 bodies of of migrants a month on average. some of them are being buried in unmarked graveyards. so students from texas state university and volunteers are taking on the heavy task of exhuming and identifying the bodies. making sure no one is forgotten. joining us now is texas state university professor anthropology kate spradly. thank you for being with us. tell us about the work you and your students are doing. thank you for having us. in 2012, there was a surge in migrant deaths in texas. migrants fleeing extreme violence. we found that counies that were inundated with migrant deaths did not have the proper resources or training. they were finding bodies and burying them. they weren t taking dna
this is bbc news. our top stories: separatist leaders in ukraine announce a series of referendums to decide if their regions willjoin russia western leaders queue up at the un to condemn president putin s invasion. translation: when they are responsible for the displacement of vast populations, the idea of organising a referendum in those regions where people have been forced to flee is the very signature of cynicism. exhuming the dead we report from one city in eastern ukraine where the bodies of civilians are still being unearthed. further protests across iran over the death in custody of a young woman accused of breaking the islamic dress code.
countries and among them, el salvador. the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s. taste salvador. the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s.- civil war in the 1980s. we end u . civil war in the 1980s. we end no exhuming civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the remains - civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the remains of l up exhuming the remains of close to 140 kids that were all in this very small one room house. we were exhuming all these little dresses and whatever they have in their pockets. those kinds of details are actually the ones that kind of, devastate you. they are very hard. yes. i started doing the forensic work on human rights cases in 1984 when democracy returned argentina after a quite brutal military government. as a student, we werejust finishing very government. as a student, we were just finishing very close to the area. it wasn t
are happening across canada right now, led by survivors who arejust, you know, they ve been triggered into their grief and they want to do something about it. now, i ve heard one survivor, so far, say that those bodies need to stay where they are. at the same time, these are crime scenes. that s the bottom line. you do not bury a body in an unmarked grave. that is considered a crime in canada, and these crimes have to be investigated. in fact, i brought this up to the prime minister when i talked to him briefly. i brought it up with the attorney general of canada, that we need an independent rapporteur. the chiefs across canada are calling for that, and we re making some headway on that. so, i know that people are very sensitive to the situation around these little children. i mean, these children were loved. these children were cared for. and the idea of exhuming,
the most conspicuous ban in the generation. the murderer was caught and set to death. shepard: that was back in the day. officials in indiana have given the okay to dig up the subject of that, john dillinger. dig him up from the grave. the gangster was a folk hero to some during the depression. it s been more than eight decades since the feds killed him outside a theater in chicago. jonathan hunt reporting on this. why are they digging him up? if family of john dillinger has not spoken to the press about this, but it s all to do with the history channel. they have confirmed that the exhuming will be part of the documentary on the gangster. a request made by his nephew to the indiana department of health asked to disinter and return the body on one day, september 16.