Activists Launch Online Site on Mexico Rights Abuse Deutsche Welle
go to original October 12, 2016

A transparency website has gone online in Mexico, providing information on the gravest rights abuse cases in the country's recent history. Still, the activists behind the project accuse the officials of holding back.

The online files include pictures, videos, and declassified documents on over a dozen well-known abuse cases in Mexico, with more material set to be published following the site's launch on Tuesday.

Several non-government organizations worked together for a year and a half to create the Spanish-language web page "Memory and Truth," focusing on the period 1968 and 2014. They were backed by the prestigious Iberoamericana University and the government's national transparency institute INAI.

The archive seeks to "shore up public awareness (…) on cases of state violence," the activists said in a statement.

Among other incidents, the site shows information on the massacre of 72 migrants by a drug cartel in 2010, as wells the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, allegedly at the hands of corrupt police officials.

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