Following recommendations by international organizations, Mexicos Senate is in the process of drafting the first law that criminalizes forced disappearances.
25 thousand 230 victims have yet to be found in Mexico, according to the 2014s National Data Registry (Registro Nacional de Datos [RNPED] in Spanish) annual report, the government has barely located 74 people, 61 of them alive and 13 dead.
A public enquiry will start this week regarding ruling initiatives to combat forced disappearances and disappearances perpetrated by individuals after the insistence of the United Nations, Amnesty International and the Attorney General's Office (PGR in Spanish) experts and the Human Rights, Justice and Legislative Studies united committee.
More than half of the official number of people, who have yet to be found, went missing between 2007 and 2012. These incidents happened mainly in these 11 states: Tamaulipas, Jalisco, Nuevo León, State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Federal District, State of Mexico, Veracruz, Coahuila. A majority of the federal cases of missing people are concentrated in these last five states.
A report that was presented before the Senate by the Interior Ministry, the SNSP (Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública in Spanish) and the Attorney Generals Office (PGR in Spanish) stated that half of the disappeared victims share a similar profile; theyre all males under 35.
President Enrique Peña Nieto had already addressed this issue by ordering the creation of a special task force specializing in finding missing persons, known as the Fiscalía Especializada para la Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas, this action was called upon by the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas relatives.
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Translated by: edgar.martinez@sandiegored.com
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