“Son, listen, your mother is in the fight!” collectives of mothers and relatives of missing persons demonstrated on Monday through the streets of downtown Mexico City to demand the search for their loved ones.
The mobilization was part of the tenth edition of the March of National Dignity, which departed from the Angel of Independence to the Monument to the Revolution.
With the demands for truth and justice burning in our voice, we arrive at the Monument to the Revolution.
Hijx, listen, your mother’s in the fight, #EsperanzaEnBusqueda ✊? pic.twitter.com/9h80zWR2J4
— @movNDmx (@movNDmx) May 10, 2021
With slogans, posters and photographs, the Movement for Our Missing persons in Mexico (MNDM), a group of more than 60 groups, demanded that seven demands be met.
The first was comprehensive case care, with an urgent search program, immediately, and the next, was the immediate federal attraction of all cases.
A census of disappearance reports with a report card was also requested for each case and the creation of a special sub-procedure for missing persons at the federal level.
The last three petitions pointed to the creation of a Republic-wide approved investigative protocol, a federal programme to care for the relatives of missing persons and accept all the recommendations of the UN Working Group for Enforced Disappearance.
? these are the demands of the Tenth March of National Dignity pic.twitter.com/zdS0uFQwtI
— @movNDmx (@movNDmx) May 10, 2021
Around 7:00 a.m. this May 10, relatives of missing persons demonstrated in front of the National Palace for the reform of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic.
While inside the venue the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, gave up his morning lecture time to a eugenia León concert; outside, members of the Movement for Our Missing persons in Mexico came to submit a request to the representative to exercise his vetoing power against various aspects of the reform that could involve “a setback in the rights of victims”.
They acknowledged that during the discussion of the opinion, in the House of Senators and Deputies, the voices of the organizations were not heard.
They also ensured that the project was approved despite the discontent of family members, who not only questioned the reform, but had offered possible solutions.
The request to the President is that the opinion of law be sent back to the Senate, and some technical considerations are taken into account for certain proposed articles of both the General Law on Disappearance and the FGR Act.
In the explanatory manifesto, the movement requests a hearing with the president in order to explain in more detail the victims’ concerns regarding legislative reforms.
After almost an hour of protest in front of the National Palace, and once the presentation of Eugenia León ended, the relatives were received by the Secretary of the Governorate, Olga Sánchez Cordero, the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas and the national search commissioner, Karla Quintana.
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