Mexico Registers Around 26,000 People as Missing
Mexico Registers Around 26,000 People as Missing
Mexico, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) Around 26,000 people are registered by the National Register of Data on Missing People (RNPED), of the National Public Security System, media outlets published today.
Santiago Corcuera, member of the United Nations Committee against Forced Disappearance, considered that this situation is a true national tragedy.
In August, last year, the Government admitted that 22,611 people were reported as missing and this year in March, this figure went up to 25,821.
Of the total, more than 40 percent were reports made during the current government of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which led the country from December 1, 2006 to November 30, 2012.
Official statistics showed that 72 percent of those missing were men, 59 percent of them were at working age and 25 percent were minors, the sources asserted.
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