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For: Real America News Updated 12 Apr 2022, 18: 18 pm EDT
The UN Committee Against Enforced Disappearances denounced that those responsible for the increase in disappearances in Mexico are the public servants, both at the federal, state and municipal level, as well as organized crime, which it considers the main perpetrator of the disappearances.
During the presentation of their report on the hearing they held of the 15 to the 26 November 2021, the body of independent experts urged immediate action to end absolute impunity and to establish a national policy that serves to prevent this human tragedy.
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“The Committee urges the State to adopt and implement a national policy for the prevention and eradication of disappearances that addresses the set of observations and recommendations presented in its report by the Committee”, highlighted its president, Carmen Roda Villa Quintana.
The analysis of the Committee concludes that forced disappearances are “a generalized situation or issue” and indicated that at 26 of November the number of people registered who were victims of that crime amounted to 95,121, 112 of them during the visit of the Com item.
“Between 2006 and 2021 there is an exponential growth of disappearances in the country . This is a 98% of the total disappearances that occurred during said period”, he stated.
Roda indicated that the Most of the disappeared are men from 15 a 40 years, although it is noted that official figures report a growing trend of disappearance of girls and boys from the age of years, although adolescents and women should also be included.
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The expert added that “it would be about disappearances that would have as object to hide sexual violence, femicide, trafficking and sexual exploitation”.
He also expressed concern about the disappearance of human rights defenders. human rights and more than 12 journalists between 2003 and 2021, since “none of these people has been located and the investigations and sanctions against those responsible have made no progress” .
Similarly, the Committee considered the victimization of women to be of “particular concern”, since during the disappearancess are the ones who are left in charge of the families and are in charge of searching for their loved ones by their own means.
“In addition to the social and economic effects, they are also victims of violence, persecution, stigmatization, extortion and retaliation”, he added.
Another of the alarming trends reflected in the report is that the increase in disappearances was facilitated by the existence of impunity “almost absolute”
“Impunity in Mexico is a structural feature that favors the reproduction and cover-up of forced disappearances and endangers and causes anxiety to the victims, to those who defend and promote their rights, to the public servants who they search for the disappeared persons and investigate their cases and society as a whole”, said the Committee.
Until the 26 of November of last year, only between 2 and 6% of the cases of forced disappearances were prosecuted and at a national level s
have only been issued 15 sentences in the cases dedicated to this crime.
“The passive attitude of the authorities in the face of disappearances forced violence contributes to the victims’ notable lack of trust in the authorities. Faced with this, a high number of cases of disappearances are not reported”, he stressed.
Current forensic services are not sufficient
The third and last main axis highlighted by the analysis is the forensic crisis faced by Mexico.
According to public data, more than 60,000 Unidentified deceased persons are found in mass graves, forensic services facilities, universities and custody centers and forensic storage.
“The forensic services are insufficient and several of the instruments provided for in the General Law have not yet been established and there is no public policy of human identification in relation to the disappearance of persons”, he indicated. .
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