Mexico City, December 14 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Mexican Attorney General's Office located 184 mass graves in the country between January 2010 and June 2015, which contained 573 bodies.

Almost half of them (273 bodies) were found in the state of Guerrero, while one third of the illegal mass graves were located in the city of Iguala, also in Guerrero, where the 43 Ayotzinapa students disappeared in September 2014.

In Guerrero, criminal gangs are often linked to local state officials.

Human rights groups reported that as a result of the violence, over 120 mass displacements — which are considered to be 10 or more families forced to flee at the same time for the same cause — occurred between 2008 and 2010 in Mexico with a fifth of them in the state of Guerrero, and this rate significantly increased this year.

According to the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, 40 percent of the 23 forced removals in the country between January and February 2015 took place in the state of Guerrero, corresponding to over 9,000 people displaced.