Mexico City, Aug 6 Relatives of the disappeared marched this Saturday through the emblematic Reforma Avenue, in Mexico City, to demand that the Government create the National Forensic Data Bank (BNDF), reported the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Prodh Center).
In a bulletin, the agency specified that the families and groups marched towards the facilities of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) where they carried out the symbolic closure of the property under the slogan “Identification now.”
Also, he said, an ecumenical action was carried out, promoted by the Axis of Churches of the National Brigade for the Search of Disappeared Persons and they took the opportunity to denounce the omission of the Prosecutor’s Office in the creation and operation of this Bank.
Within the omissions of the Prosecutor’s Office, according to information obtained by the Prodh Center through requests for access to public information, there is also the breach of its obligation to concentrate the country’s forensic information.
“It only has the genetic information of 15,000 unidentified bodies of the more than 52,000 unidentified bodies recognized by official figures; that is, the information of 2 out of 3 bodies is not found in the FGR database”, he denounced.
Likewise, it stated that the information from the FGR is not updated or complete either, since 7 out of 8 genetic profiles obtained are not sent from the states to the FGR and half of the States of the Republic have not sent genetic information to the FGR. the Prosecutor’s Office so far in 2022.
“The Prosecutor’s Office also acknowledges having received 35,000 genetic profiles, while the states report having sent more than 53,000; that is, there would be 18,000 missing. Since 2006, only 1% of the identifications in the entire country were made by the FGR”, he lamented.
He recalled that the General Law on the Disappearance of Persons, published in November 2017, ordered the creation of various mechanisms to deal with the serious crisis that today adds up to more than 100,000 missing persons and 52,000 unidentified bodies in the country, according to official figures.
Among these is the creation of the National Forensic Data Bank “as of today, however, said Bank does not yet exist,” insisted the Prodh Center.
Finally, relatives and activists made a call to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Judiciary to address the crisis of more than 100,000 disappeared people in Mexico.
This protest is part of the activities prior to the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which is commemorated on August 30. EFE
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