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Mexico Accounts for its Oil but Not its Disappeared: UN
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U.N. human rights official says the Mexican government ignored U.N. recommendations three years ago, questioning why the country can account for its oil stocks, but not its disappeared.
U.N. human rights official says the Mexican government ignored U.N. recommendations three years ago, questioning why the country can account for its oil stocks, but not its disappeared.
A top United Nations human rights work group offcial has spoken out about the case of 43 students who were forcibly disappeared in Mexico in September, saying that it was a unique and severe case at a public meeting with members of the Iguala case special commission, and politicians from the lower house, Thursday.
President of the U.N. Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Work Group, Ariel Dulitzky, questioned those present why Mexico always knows how much oil is exported, but cannot account for the number of disappeared people .
Dulitzky said that during his four years as a member of the special group he hadn’t seen disappearances in such numbers as Guerrero’s 43 students, a case he deemed extremely severe.
The U.N. official said that Mexico must seize this opportunity to create much-needed policies against enforced disappearance.
“This is a unique case, but its uniqueness and severity also means there’s a historic opportunity for this to be a turning point on adopting necessary public policies and assume complete responsibility on this kind of crime,” said Dulitsky.
“This means clearing the whereabouts of every one who was forcedly disappeared in Mexico, not only the Ayotzinapa 43 students, but also the thousand of cases still not cleared,” added Dulitsky, who says the main obstacle in Mexico is to completely eradicate impunity.
Dulitsky also noted that neither the general attorney, nor law enforcement agencies, are capable or prepared to deal with these kind of cases, where drug cartels, corruption and police forces are mixed.
Under these circumstances, Dulitsky explained, “it is really hard to efficiently investigate on human rights violations such as enforced disappearance. There’s no analysis capacity or useful intelligence, this shows the state’s lack of will in the case, or if it is really willing, is incapable to investigate, judge and sanctions cases of forced disappearance,” he added.
Every case of forced disappearance in our databases is an open wound to Mexican people, and it will remain open until the truth is known
In his statement, he also condemned Mexico’s lawmakers, saying that Congress has not approved a general forced disappearance law, nor a law regulating a legitimate use of force, and that the government has failed to implement a national missing persons search program, or create a forensic sciences national institute.
After the representative of the Green Ecological Mexican Party (PVEM, a satellite of the Revolutionary Institutional Party or PRI) rejected the U.N. representative messages, defending the government and saying it has acted properly during the investigation of the Ayotzinapa case, Dulitsky reminded her that three years ago his work group issued 33 recommendations on the issue of forced disappearances and most of them wre disregarded by the Mexican government.
“I cannot say if accomplishing this recommendations could have prevented what happened in Iguala, but I’m dead sure that implementing them would have helped ready the government to respond in an incident like this one … Every case of forced disappearance in our databases is an open wound to Mexican people, and it will remain open until the truth is known,” Dulitzky concluded.
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