In the last 15 years of struggle between rival gangs in Mexico and the government, the number of disappeared and mass graves has racked up.

The state of Michoacan is where the conflict began, and it has been consumed with violence ever since.

But there has been no large scale search for the missing in the state - until now.

Al Jazeera's John Holman has this report.

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