By RICARDO CHAVEZ – Associated Press
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico —
Mexico’s government publicly apologized on Monday for failing to prevent the killings of three women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and for the negligence of officials in investigating the crimes.
The apology is a response to a 2009 ruling by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights that besides seeking an apology, also asked Mexico to reopen investigations into the cases and to erect a memorial site in the empty lot where the bodies were found in 2001.
The state of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located, has been plagued by the unsolved slayings of hundreds of women since 1993. After failing to receive justice in Mexico, the families of three of the dead women asked the international court to take up their cases. The court only ruled on those three cases.
“We apologize. It is our obligation to investigate these crimes,” said Interior Deputy Secretary Felipe Zamora at an event in the half-finished memorial.
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