Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

UN Call on Mexico to Prosecute State Forces for Over 11,000 Missing People

Mexico's delegation told the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances at a review last week that 11,300 people were unaccounted for. Amnesty International said in a statement that more than 22,600 had gone missing in the past eight years amid "a huge problem of impunity".

In their findings, the committee's 10 independent experts said they had received information that "illustrates a context of generalised disappearances in a great part of the territory (of Mexico), many of which could be qualified as enforced disappearances".

"Enforced disappearances" are those linked to detention or abduction by state agents such . . .

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