Thousands of missing marches 130,000 missing

Thousands of people protested all over Mexico to highlight many enforced disappearances in the country and demand more measures by officials to address them.

Relatives and friends of missing persons, as well as human rights activists, in the streets of Mexico, Guadalakara, behavior and other cities calling for justice and urged the government of President Claudia Shinbum to help find their missing loved ones.

More than 130,000 people were reported missing in Mexico. Almost all cases of disappearance have occurred since 2007, when its president, Felipe Calderon, launched “the war on drugs”.

In many cases, those that disappeared by force in drug gangs – or were killed for resistance.

While drug gangs and organized crime groups are the main perpetrators, the security forces are blamed for deaths and disappearances.

The widespread spread of cities, countries and municipalities in which the demonstrations were held to what extent affect the problem of enforced disappearance on societies and families throughout Mexico.

From one of the sides of the country to the other – from southern states such as Oaxaka to north such as Sonora and Durango – activists and family members of the people who disappeared in thousands who carry signs with the faces of their relatives, to demand the authorities to do more to address this issue.

In Mexico City, the march brought traffic in the capital to a dead end, as the protest moved to the main road.

Many families affected have formed research teams, known as “Buscadores”, which roam the countryside and deserts in northern Mexico, after parties, often from the carters themselves, regarding the location of the mass graves.

Buscadores carries out searches and activity at a great personal danger. In the aftermath of the recent discovery in the state of Galissco about Narko Ranch apparent by a research group, many buses concerned disappeared.

The state prosecutor’s office later concluded that there is no evidence of a Holocaust.

The United Nations described it as a “human tragedy with huge dimensions.”

Mexico is witnessing a level of disappearance that exceeds some of the worst fees in Latin America.

About 40,000 disappeared in the 36 -year -old civil war, which ended in 1996. It disappeared by an estimated 30,000 in Argentina under its military rule between 1976 and 1983.