PBI-Mexico accompanies Search for Relatives ‘Returning Home’ at Human Rights Commission working tables in Morelos
On November 13, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on social media:
“#PBIaccompanies
Yesterday, we accompanied the collective Búsqueda De Familiares ‘Regresando A Casa’ A.C. (Search for Relatives ‘Returning Home’) at the working tables of the initiative ‘Regional Dialogues towards the Human Rights Agenda’ of the Human Rights Commission of the state of Morelos.
It was an enriching space to share concerns and reflections on the main challenges in the field of human rights, exchange ideas, and strengthen ties of collaboration between institutions and collectives.”
The BBC has reported: “More than 130,000 people have been reported as missing in Mexico. Almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his ‘war on drugs’. In many cases, those disappeared have been forcibly recruited into the drug cartels – or murdered for resisting. While drug cartels and organised crime groups are the main perpetrators, security forces are also blamed for deaths and disappearances.”
That article adds: “Many affected families have formed search teams, known as ‘buscadores’, who scour the countryside and the deserts of northern Mexico, following tip-offs, often from the cartels themselves, as to the whereabouts of mass graves. The buscadores carry out the searches and their activism at great personal risk. Following the recent discovery in Jalisco state of an apparent narco-ranch by a search group, several of the buscadores involved were disappeared.”
We continue to follow this.
