United Nations Watchdog Says Mexico Must Probe Thousands of 'Disappearances' Wochit
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A United Nations watchdog called on Mexico on Friday to probe and prosecute alleged complicity of state forces in "disappearances", including a notorious case of 43 students believed murdered last year. Mexico's delegation told the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances at a review last week that 11,300 people were unaccounted for.

Amnesty International said in a statement that more than 22,600 had gone missing in the past eight years amid "a huge problem of impunity." In their findings, the committee's 10 independent experts said they had received information that "illustrates a context of generalized disappearances in a great part of the territory of Mexico, many of which could be qualified as enforced disappearances".

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