"Carlos Menem is the culprit and is a criminal fugitive," said Marina Degtiar, who spoke on behalf of relatives of the victims.
The old system did allow people in Mexico to lobby for documentation on behalf of relatives in the US but the process took months or even years.
Some were looking for a new career; others were asking on behalf of relatives who had recently graduated from high school or college.
That suit is now in limbo, pending the outcome of the bankruptcy case, as are several other suits filed on behalf of relatives of many of the 1,000 people who were buried on the hill, called Terrace Meadow.
Deborah Coles, the director of Inquest, which campaigns on behalf of relatives of those who have died, said the statistics belied any suggestion that the government was successfully pursuing a prison reform agenda.
Only a month ago, the fund had received applications from about 1,800 families, or only 60percentt of those eligible, on behalf of relatives killed in 2001 at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and aboard the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
So far, about 1,800 families, or only 60percentt of those eligible, have filed claims on behalf of relatives killed at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and aboard an airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania.
An Israeli lawyer, Roland Roth, has filed suits on behalf of relatives of Holocaust victims against Bank Leumi and the privately owned Israel Land Development Company, originally set up by the Zionist movement to buy land in Palestine.
For some countries, 60% of the affidavits written on behalf of relatives have been proved to be false.Fewer people, more countriesThere is also a structural reason for the sluggishness.
Proceedings were also brought on behalf of relatives of Gerard Casey, murdered by the Ulster Freedom Fighters in Rasharkin, County Antrim in 1989; Danny Doherty and William Fleming, shot dead by the SAS in Londonderry in 1984; and Francis Bradley, killed by the SAS near Castledawson, County Londonderry in 1986.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it would provide consular assistance to the victim's family, and released a brief statement on behalf of relatives.
