Forty One Years on Mexico Offers Big Reward for Help Finding Missing Activist Andalusia Knoll - VICE News
go to original October 16, 2015

On August 25, 1974, Rosendo Radilla went missing after he was detained by soldiers in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, while travelling with his young son.

Forty one years on the Mexican government has offered a 1.5 million-peso ($900,000) reward for information leading to his whereabouts, or to the apprehension of those responsible for his disappearance.

"Disappearances, like the case we have before us, are not resolved until we determine where a person is," the deputy attorney general for human rights, Eber Betanzos, told VICE News. "Just because so many years have passed, doesn't mean that all the lines of investigation have been exhausted."

There are currently more than 25,000 people officially missing in Mexico, an undetermined but significant number of them enforced disappearances involving agents of the state.

The Radilla case stands out thanks to the persistence of his relatives and an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that has turned the case into a symbol of the way that unresolved disappearances can continue to haunt governments decades after the victims went missing.

The announcement of the reward, on October 12, also comes at a time when the government is under unprecedented national and international pressure to stop minimizing the phenomenon.

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