Mexico has 37,000 unidentified bodies (government) Mexico, 17 Mar 2022 (AFP) - Mexico has 37,000 unidentified bodies registered lying in forensic services and clandestine graves, the government reported Thursday. The country is going through a “forensic emergency situation,” said Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary of Human Rights , about a crisis that is linked to the problem of the disappeared, of which Mexico counts about 95,000 cases.Encinas, whose office is attached to the Ministry of the Interior, explained that of the 37,000 bodies some 8,000 had been taken to morgues and “the rest (were) in mass graves.” causes of the problem is that “there is no national genetic database” to compare DNA samples taken from relatives of the disappeared, with those from the unidentified remains. Last August, a report by the Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico, an organization that groups some 70 groups of relatives of victims, said that there are more than 52,000 unidentified bodies in mass graves and forensic services in the country. The problem of missing persons in Mexico has worsened since December 2006, when the government of then-President Felipe Calderón launched a controversial offensive against drug trafficking cartels, with United States advice and active participation of military forces. Since then, Mexico has accumulated more than 340,000 homicides, most attributed to actions by criminals.jg/axm/dga