A woman writes a message next to photos of missing people in Mexico City. Photo Mario Guzman/EFE
The numbers released Monday by the National Registry of Missing or Missing Persons in Mexico are as disturbing as the fear that resides among citizens in various regions of the country. According to official figures, there are already over 100,000 missingalthough NGOs considered many more and urged the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to take immediate steps.
“We demand that the State of Mexico immediately, forcefully and comprehensively address the serious crisis of loss and human identity we are experiencing in Mexico, which must be understood as part of a terrible crisis of violence and insecurity“, said in a statement the organization Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico.
The entity also requested that the State of Mexico “demonstrate and implement” a public policy to search for living persons, in addition to identification, indicating concrete steps resulting from the cooperation of state governments and the Government. led by López Obrador.
The need for “systematization, concentration, and management of databases and information located in various forensic and investigative spaces, making it possible to locate and/or identify people,” was highlighted.
The Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico also recalled that the organizations that make it up have worked “diligently” to advance laws and public policy that guarantee the location of missing people, but they confirmed before the numbers “these were it’s not enough. “
A woman hugs her son in front of a mural with information about missing people in Guadalajara. Photo Francisco Guasco/EFE
“This is very painful and worried that more and more families are joining for the same purpose, “they lament in the document.
They also stressed that although the official number is alarming, there are many more cases.
“In addition to the seriousness of this figure, search groups have criticized this figure for not being very accurate because, based on our experience there are significant and diverse numbers of cases not considered within the register“, they think.
Precisely for this reason, they demanded that the authorities “deal with this crisis in a comprehensive and immediate manner according to its proportion. sad number of missing people“.
Mexico already has more than 100,000 people missing, according to official records
The UN warning
On April 12, relatives of those missing from the Movement in the State of Mexico requested to hear the report of the UN Committee Against Enforced Disappearances (CED) and apply the recommendations quickly and convincingly.
On the same day, the United Nations Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) from Geneva (Switzerland) published its report on the visit to Mexico it conducted between November 15 and 26, 2021. -a dozen days in which 112 disappearances occurred-the first time this body went to investigate the ground.
The committee reviewed the situation in Mexico, where until then there was an official registry counting 98,877 missing and unidentified people from 1964 – when records began – to the present.
They noted that from the end of November 2021 to mid -April 3,804 people were missing, “an average of 28 people a day”.
In the document, among other things, the committee ensured that, although organized crime is the main author of the thousands of enforced disappearances registered each year in the country, The State of Mexico is also liable for this crime when it is committed by its federal, state or municipal officials and permits impunity..
With information from EFE
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