As part of his visit to Mexico, the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) met today with families and groups in search of disappeared persons from the states of Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, who presented the situation of disappearances in the region.
Likewise, members of the committee visited Regional Center for Human Identification of Coahuila, in which human identification is being implemented with a massive approach for missing persons and they participated in the beginning of the search work in the clandestine graves located in the municipality of Yecapixtla, Morelos.
During his meeting with at least 14 search groups, in Guanajuato, the relatives of the disappeared presented to the experts information about the humanitarian crisis in this matter. It was said that experts from the CED They were able to listen to the stories that show how violence has increased due to the inaction of the State to prevent it, which has caused an increase in disappearances, committed in some cases with the active participation of the authorities and organized crime.
In addition, they highlighted that the state prosecutor’s office has not given an effective response, omitting to carry out immediate search actions, without giving complete information regarding the findings of remains in areas such as Salvatierra, Acámbaro, El Sauz de Villaseñor and the Conejo dam. To which is added the deficient delivery of identified bone remains.
The members of the groups also accused the lack of security and protection during their search tasks, which has even led to the murder of three searchers and the displacement of other families.
“The visit of CED Committee maintains in force the need to continue the supervision and demand of our authorities by international organizations.Therefore, the presence of the expert body on disappearances of the HIM-HER-IT it is a hope for us to continue walking in search of our family members and in the demand for truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition ”, to emphasize.
In this context, the groups of the entity delivered a report to detail part of the problems that exist in the state, where, they said, there is official confusion, and a black figure about the disappearances.
It was highlighted that the figures of CNB on disappearances, the most understandable at the national level tend to disagree with those provided by the Guanajuato State Attorney General’s Office Through its Transparency Unit, which reports a 97.41% location rate out of a total of 21,418 investigations opened for the disappearance of people from January 1, 2012 to October 12, 2021: this means that there would be only 554 missing persons in the entity.
However, they accuse that the data is not realistic, and is much less than that of federal sources and the one transmitted by the State Commission for the Search of Persons, which counts 1,131 missing persons in Guanajuato, only between June 2020 and October 31, 2021.
In addition, they added that according to the National Registry of Missing and Uncharted Persons (RNPDNO), maintained by the National Search Commission (CNB), in Guanajuato there were 2,619 people missing as of November 12, 2021. 51.6% (1,351) of these people were reported as missing in the last three years (since November 11, 2018), accounting for a very pronounced recent escalation and geographically extended. because the number has not stopped increasing.
While since there is a record to date, a total of 15,140 people have disappeared in the entity and 12,522 have been located (82.7%). But in the last three years, the location percentage fell to only 2.74% (38 people), showing a very worrying situation.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx