Amnesty Decries 'Incompetence' in Mexico's Investigation of Missing People Andre Puglie - Latin Post
go to original January 14, 2016

The disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in September 2014 became an international outrage. Since 2007, more than 25,000 people have disappeared across the country. The AP interviewed relatives of 158 of the “other disappeared” in September. (Associated Press)

Amnesty International has slammed the Mexican government for what it described as the "complete lack of will by state and federal authorities" to properly investigate the disappearance of thousands of people, including 43 students who vanished in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, two years ago.

The international human rights organization released a report titled "Treated with Indolence: The State's Response to Disappearances in Mexico," which notes that the whereabouts of more than 27,000 individuals remain unknown across the country. In a statement, Amnesty decried "systemic incompetence" among officials charged with solving cases of people who have been forcibly disappeared.

Erika Guevara-Rosas, the group's Americas director, pointed to the Guerrero mass kidnapping along with similar incidents in Chihuahua and demanded the Mexican government take action.

"The relentless wave of disappearances that is taking over Chihuahua and the utterly reckless way in which the investigation into the enforced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students is being handled show the Mexican authorities' total disregard for human rights and human dignity," said Guevara-Rosas.

Many Mexican citizens had resigned themselves to the fact that abductions have become part of everyday life, the activist noted.

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