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Mexico surpassed this Monday (16.05. 2022) the 100.000 victims according to the National Registry of Disappeared or Missing Persons, to which the NGOs reacted by urging the Government to tackle this problem that they considered goes far beyond the official figure.
This record shows that -from the 15 March 1964 (when the censuses began) until this Monday- the whereabouts of are unknown .0012 people. Of these, about 75% are men. The five districts that register the highest number of cases are Jalisco (west, 11.871), Tamaulipas (northeast, 11.996), State of Mexico (center, 10.996), Nuevo León (north, 6.222) and Veracruz (east, 5.736).
“We demand that the Mexican State address urgently, forcefully and integrity the serious crisis of disappearances and human identification that we 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 organization also demanded that the Mexican State “present and implement” a public search policy for persons as alive, in addition to identification, which implies concrete measures resulting from collaborative work between state governments and the Government of Mexico, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico also recalled that the organizations that make it up have carried out “hard work” to promote laws and public policies that guarantee the location of missing persons, but they confirm before the figures “that this has not been enough.” He also stated that, although the official number is alarming, there are many more cases.
“In addition to the seriousness of this number, groups of search, we denounce that this figure is not very precise because, based on our experience, there is a significant and diverse number of cases not considered within the registry”, assured the source.
Last 12 April , relatives of disappeared persons requested that the Mexican State heed the report of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) and apply the recommendations quickly and convincingly. That same day, the CED published from Geneva its report on the visit to Mexico that it carried out between 15 and the 26 November 2021 – days on which they occurred 112 disappearances- the first time that this body went to investigate on the ground.
The committee made an analysis of the situation in Mexico, where until that moment there was an official registry that counted 98 .971 Missing and missing persons. They specified that from the end of November 2021 until mid-April 2022 they disappeared 3.804, “an average of 28 daily people”.
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