Forced Disappearance, a Cancer Eating Away at Mexico
Forced Disappearance, a Cancer Eating Away at Mexico
By Daniela Pastrana
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The photos of victims of forced disappearance in the southwestern state of Guerrero hang on the walls of the San Gerardo
parish soup kitchen, in the city of Iguala. Credit: Daniela Pastrana/IPSThe photos of victims of forced disappearance in the
southwestern state of Guerrero hang on the walls of the San Gerardo parish soup kitchen, in the city of Iguala.
Credit: Daniela Pastrana/IPS
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IGUALA, Mexico, Sep 24 2015 (IPS) - The soup kitchen of the San Gerardo parish in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero has become a memorial to horror. Long rows of photos have been hung on the walls of the large hall – the faces of dozens of people who were “disappeared”, abducted, extracted from their lives without a trace.
Most of them are from the northern part of Guerrero, the poorest state in Mexico and one of the hardest-hit by violence. The database of the organisation searching for missing loved ones includes 350 ‘desaparecidos’, and every week new names are added.
Over the past year, this parish church in Iguala has offered a safe meeting place every Tuesday for families who have overcome their fear of speaking out and searching for their ‘desaparecidos’ in the clandestine cemetery which was discovered in the hills surrounding this city after the Sep. 26, 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the rural teachers college of Ayotzinapa.
That night, the students were attacked by the Iguala municipal police and – as is now known thanks to a meticulous investigation by a group of experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – there was a concerted action by different security forces, including the military and federal police, which lasted a number of hours and took place in at least nine different locations.
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