by War News Updates Editor
A file photo dated Nov. 30, 2012, showing photographs of disappeared persons in Mexico during a protest by their family members in Mexico City. New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday that documents 249 disappearances in Mexico since December 2006, when then-President Felipe Calderon launched a war on organized crime that "produced disastrous results."
MEXICO CITY (McClatchy News) Mexico said Wednesday that it had records of more than 27,000 cases of disappeared people that it would make public soon in an effort to clarify the circumstances under which they vanished.
Lia Limon, the countrys deputy interior secretary for human rights, acknowledged the cases hours after Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report that called Mexico the Western Hemispheres hot spot for enforced disappearances, in which police or the military arrest citizens who are never seen again.
The advocacy group said it had documented 149 cases throughout the country in which witnesses saw police or soldiers take someone into custody only to have the person vanish without a trace. But the group said the number of people whod disappeared since 2006 was enormous, noting that a provisional list compiled by the attorney generals office indicated that more than 25,000 people had gone missing during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon, who left office Dec. 1 and is now a visiting fellow at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government.
Read more .... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/20/183679/rights-group-lashes-mexico-over.html
According to those Mexicans I know, this is really not all that surprising to them. They had little respect for or trust in Calderon.
A file photo dated Nov. 30, 2012, showing photographs of disappeared persons in Mexico during a protest by their family members in Mexico City. New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday that documents 249 disappearances in Mexico since December 2006, when then-President Felipe Calderon launched a war on organized crime that "produced disastrous results."
MEXICO CITY (McClatchy News) Mexico said Wednesday that it had records of more than 27,000 cases of disappeared people that it would make public soon in an effort to clarify the circumstances under which they vanished.
Lia Limon, the countrys deputy interior secretary for human rights, acknowledged the cases hours after Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report that called Mexico the Western Hemispheres hot spot for enforced disappearances, in which police or the military arrest citizens who are never seen again.
The advocacy group said it had documented 149 cases throughout the country in which witnesses saw police or soldiers take someone into custody only to have the person vanish without a trace. But the group said the number of people whod disappeared since 2006 was enormous, noting that a provisional list compiled by the attorney generals office indicated that more than 25,000 people had gone missing during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon, who left office Dec. 1 and is now a visiting fellow at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government.
Read more .... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/20/183679/rights-group-lashes-mexico-over.html
According to those Mexicans I know, this is really not all that surprising to them. They had little respect for or trust in Calderon.