Al Jazeera 'Fault Lines' to Air Search for Answers of Mexico's Disappeared Al Jazeera | |
go to original October 31, 2014 |
This week marks a month since 43 young students disappeared in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Outcries and protests are becoming more frequent as time drags on with no trace of them. And the government is unable to answer the most pressing question: Where are they?
The last time the students were seen was after they were detained following clashes with police in the town of Iguala on September 26. Mexico’s Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam says that police then handed the detained students over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel - on orders from the mayor and his wife, both of whom are now fugitives.
Fault Lines heard several allegations of authorities carrying out disappearances while filming “The Disappeared” (which airs Saturday, November 1, at 7 p.m. Eastern time/4 p.m. Pacific on Al Jazeera America). But since investigations into kidnappings are extremely rare, much of the work - and risk - falls to families and human rights defenders.
After years of unrelenting violence, few civil society human rights groups remain to help families investigate disappearances in Tamaulipas, one of Mexico’s most dangerous states. Raymundo Ramos Vázquez, the director of the Human Rights Committee of Nuevo Laredo, is one of the last people in the region offering those services to otherwise helpless families.
Read a condensed and edited transcript of Fault Lines’ conversation with Ramos here.
Photo: Víctor Tadashi Suárez/Al Jazeera America
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