The federal government is fully investigating the alleged participation of more than 2000 public servants in acts of enforced disappearance, said Secretary of Government Relations [SEGOB], Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, regarding the complaint presented on Wednesday in this regard by the chairman of the National Commission for Human Rights, Raúl Plascencia Villanueva.
''We have nothing to hide. We are confronting it, even giving statistics, working with governors, and we'll go to the final consequences in the cases that have been presented to us.'' Osorio Chong emphasized, after signing an agreement of collaboration between the Secretariat and the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH).... Plascencia Villanueva confirmed that, according to the investigations of the CNDH, 2,443 officials may be involved in cases of enforced disappearances, so the Commission is working in partnership with local prosecutors and the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), and it will announce its resolution of the issue in a few months.
Asked about whether these cases prove the involvement of public servants in this crime against humanity, as Amnesty International (AI) warned in a recent report, Plascencia said that there are only 30 cases in which this connection was ''fully established", but so far no one has been duly punished.
One of the cases cited by the ombudsman in which it was possible to prove the involvement of government officials in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions was that of Jethro Ramses Sanchez Santana, who was arrested on the first of May 2011 by the Federal Police in Cuernavaca and later handed over to soldiers of the 24th Military Zone, who tortured and murdered him, and then tried to dispose of the body.
Another example is that of the three cousins, Jose Angel, Nitza Paola and Rocio Alvarado, arrested by soldiers in the municipality of Buenaventura, Chihuahua, in December 2009, and of whom nothing has been known since.
Plascencia Villanueva reported that the CNDH's internal inspector and its special unit on disappeared persons are working on these cases. Spanish original