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"Abuses of extraordinary dimension": Mexico exceeds the figure of 100,000 disappeared. Their families demand justice

2022-05-18T03:09:17.980Z


No effort should be spared to "end these human rights violations," said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for the victims' rights to "truth, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition" to be vindicated.


Mexico surpassed this Monday the tragic figure of 100,000 disappeared, in the midst of questioning the authorities of humanitarian organizations.

Although it had been expected for weeks, the announcement by the Ministry of the Interior worried human rights organizations and international organizations, which demanded that the Mexican government take "urgent" and "forceful" actions to address what they considered to be a "serious" crisis of disappearances and human identification”, impunity and the high levels of generalized violence in the country.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called on the Mexican authorities to guarantee access to truth and justice for the victims and their families.

"The scourge of disappearances is a human tragedy of enormous proportions," he said.

"No effort should be spared to put an end to these human rights violations and abuses of an extraordinary dimension, as well as to vindicate the rights of the victims to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition," he added.

Protesters march on Mother's Day in Mexico City for their missing loved ones, on May 10, 2022.Eduardo Verdugo / AP

Modern records of disappearances in Mexico date back to the early 1960s. However, this phenomenon has increased in the last two decades, particularly since the so-called war on drug trafficking began during the six-year term of President Felipe Calderón (2006). -2012).

The coordinator of the international area of ​​the Prodh Center, María Luisa Aguilar, told The Associated Press that overcoming the mark shows that "disappearances are not a legacy of the past, as the federal government has said, but rather it is about something that continues”, and maintained that the phenomenon is associated with the existing crisis of violence in Mexico.

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Aguilar affirmed that in order to address the problem

, a state policy is needed that allows searching for the disappeared in a comprehensive manner

, with coordination and budget for initiatives such as the Extraordinary Forensic Identification Mechanism and the National Identification Center.

Jaqueline Palmeros, who has been looking for her daughter Jael Uribe Palmeros since July 2020, was pessimistic about the increase in figures and told the aforementioned agency that this phenomenon will not stop until “everything is uprooted and we start with the guarantees of non-repetition”.

Palmeros indicated that she doubted that there could be a change in Mexico because "families are fighting against the State and unfortunately the State does not change the system."

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In its report, the Committee against Enforced Disappearances admitted that those responsible for the increase in the number were public officials at the federal, state and municipal levels, as well as organized crime, which it considered a "central perpetrator of disappearances."

The group of experts expressed concern about the disappearance of human rights defenders and more than 30 journalists between 2003 and 2021 and the "victimization of women", since during the disappearances they are the ones left in charge of the families and they take care of the search for their loved ones by their own means.

Likewise, the Committee against Forced Disappearances considered Mexico's forensic services to be "insufficient", a situation that has led to more than 52,000 unidentified deceased being in mass graves, forensic service facilities, universities and forensic custody and storage centers. .

Source: telemundo

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