Amnesty International: Mexico Discoveries Highlight 'Shocking' Crisis of Disappearances Peter Orsi - The Associated Press
go to original July 28, 2015

Mexico has been confronted with evidence of its grisly drug underworld. (Euronews)

The discovery of 129 bodies in clandestine graves during months of searching for 43 missing students highlights a crisis of disappearances in Mexico, Amnesty International said Monday.

The international human rights watchdog called the situation troubling not only in the state of Guerrero, where the students disappeared last September, but in other parts of the country.

“This latest macabre revelation confirms what we had already found: The sheer magnitude of the crisis of enforced disappearances in Guerrero and elsewhere in Mexico is truly shocking,” Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty’s Americas director, said in a statement.

According to the most recent figures provided by the Interior Department, nearly 25,000 people are officially listed as missing or disappeared in Mexico since 2007.

Amnesty’s statement came in response an Associated Press report Sunday in which federal officials, acting on a freedom of information request, said the bodies had been found in 60 clandestine graves between October and May. Only 16 of the remains had been identified as of July 13.

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