Mexico must investigate enforced disappearance of three farmers
Mexico must investigate enforced disappearance of three farmers
11 July 2012
The Mexican authorities must launch a full investigation into the alleged enforced disappearance of three members of the same farming family in the western state of Michoacán, Amnesty International said today.
The men, all from the Orozco Medina family in Nuevo Zirosto, were taken away by armed men believed to be members of the security forces - or men acting with their acquiescence - in separate incidents from July 2008 to May 2012. The men have not been seen again. The authorities deny they are in their custody.
Their relatives believe the disappearances are part of a campaign of harassment started by the local police in 2007 to try to force them to abandon their land.
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Most recently, Moises Orozco Medina disappeared on 22 May 2012. He sent a text to his sister asking her to get help from the federal judicial police (Policia Federal Ministerial, PFM) because members of the municipal police were trying to take him away. He has not been seen since and his whereabouts remain unknown.
More:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/mexico-must-investigate-enforced-disappearance-three-farmers-2012-07-11
