Rights Group Slams ‘Systematic Violence’ Facing Migrants in Mexico teleSUR
go to original August 22, 2017

The Human Rights Commission of Mexico has demanded that the government comply with reparation orders for the families of migrants who were murdered in the San Fernando massacre in 2010.

The Mexico City-based group said government officials must guarantee justice for the deaths of 72 migrants who died in Tamaulipas state, located in the northeastern side of the border with the United States.

“The case of San Fernando was a turning point in the history of migrants in transit, as it accounts for the context of systematic violence and impunity faced by migrants in their transit through Mexico, becoming figures and forgotten cases,” the commission said in a statement.

The group reiterated that the United Nations called on the Mexican government to maximize its efforts to avoid these type of crimes, to deliver the identity of the victims and to investigate and sanction those responsible for their deaths.

These efforts, according to the Commission, should be spearheaded even if it exposes organized crime or collusion within the government.

The organization criticized the fact that during the investigations, the Mexican government delivered the wrong bodies to the victims’ families and that there were inconsistencies in the official versions of reports.

Between Aug. 22-23, 2010, 72 migrants from Central and South America were murdered.

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