This “human tragedy” is fueled by “absolute impunity” for the kidnappersthe Committee added in the text, as a result of its visit to Mexico from November 15 to 26.
“There were 95,121 people missing as of November 26“, of which 112 cases occurred during those days, he stressed.
Of the total complaints, some 8,000 were added in the last five years, the report added, indicating that “disappearances continue to affect mainly men between 15 and 40 years of age.”
However, “official figures show a notable increase in the disappearance of girls and boys children from the age of 12, as well as adolescents and women”, notes the Committee.
The commissioners also expressed their alarm at “the situation of the human rights defenders, some of which disappeared during their participation in search operations” for other victims. In addition, “more than 30 journalists” disappeared between 2003 and 2021“, remember.
During its visit to Mexico, the Committee also “heard reports of disappearances that occurred in prisons and migration centers.”
Only 2% to 6% of cases of enforced disappearance have been sanctioned by trial and only 36 convictions have been handed down.
“Impunity in Mexico is a structural trait that favors the reproduction of forced disappearances, and endangers and causes anguish to the victims,” he denounced while emphasizing the “disappearances of migrants.” In this regard, the Committee requested that “the prevention (of this crime) must be at the center of a national policy”.
The disappearances began in Mexico with the so-called “dirty war” waged by the authorities against the revolutionary movements of the 1960s-1980s.
Their number skyrocketed starting in the 2000s, with the increase in drug trafficker activity in Mexico and the war that the former president Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) declared the cartels at the beginning of his government.
Source: Ambito
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