The organized crime He is the main author of thousands of forced disappearences recorded each year in Mexicobut the Mexican State is also responsible for this crime when it is perpetrated by its federal, state or municipal officials and impunity is allowed, said a group of UN experts.
“Public agents and organized crime are responsible for the sharp increase in forced disappearances,” according to a report of the Committee that monitors this problem in the world.
“This is a generalized situation,” commented the group’s president, Carmen Quintanawho led a working visit made to Mexico by members of this instance between November 15 and 26, a dozen days in which 112 disappearances occurred.
The State “is also responsible when armed organizations or groups are de facto under the control of state authorities and receive some form of support from state agents or there is a known pattern of disappearances and no action is taken,” explained the jurist. at a press conference in Geneva.
Since 2017 the National Registry of Missing Persons each year it has incorporated 8,000 new victims and now the total number of documented and unsolved cases rises to about 98,000.
The forced disappearences They began to increase “exponentially” since 2006 and 98 percent of cases that appear in the National Registry occurred from that year, detailed Villa Quintana.
“The impunity is almost total”, denounced the president of the Committee, after pointing out that only between 2 and 6 percent of cases of disappearances they have given rise to the opening of a judicial process and at the national level only 36 convictions have been handed down.
The victims of the disappearances have usually been men between the ages of 15 and 40, but official figures indicate a considerable increase in cases among minors over the age of twelve, as well as women.
Its purpose would be to “hide sexual violence, femicide, trafficking and sexual exploitation,” explained Villa Quintana, a leading UN human rights specialist who was part of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.
Another aspect that the Committee highlights in its report as a serious concern is the disappearance from human rights defenders dedicated to the fight against this same crime, as well as some thirty journalists between 2003 and 2021, none of whom have been located or the perpetrators punished.
Other groups affected by the disappearances have been the communities nativesin the context of social and territorial conflicts, and LGBT people“for purposes of social cleansing and sexual exploitation, after internment in the so-called reconversion therapy centers.”
The president of the Committee also recounted episodes of disappearances of truck drivers and their companions on highway 85 from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo, “which would be related to fuel trafficking, to appropriate assets in which the municipal authorities would be involved. of Nayarit and disappearances in addiction internment centers”.
The UN Committee asked the Mexican Government to abandon its strategy of militarization of public security, for being inadequate to protect human rights.
With information from EFE