On 26 November in Mexico City, the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights presents its book Internal Displacement Induced by Violence: A Global Experience, a Mexican Reality, as written by Laura Rubio Díaz-Leal, an investigator and member of said organization.
The aim of the book is to make visible the victims of displacement and to call on the State to create an assistance program and to take into account this now-ignored phenomenon.
The author of the work commented during her presentation that, in the majority of the country, it was quite impossible to document how many Mexicans have left their homes due to violence, but a very conservative calculation estimates at least 170,000.
In this sense, Esperanza Hernández, the spokesperson for at least 600 families from 40 communities in Sinaloa state that have been displaced by the violence of organized crime in the state, noted that “They [the cartels] patrolled as though they were the government; they threatened us and told us that if we didn’t leave, they would conscript us into their service. On 10 January 2012, they killed a neighbor of Ocurague and the next day during the night, they killed an entire family. Maddened by fear, we decided to flee and leave everything behind.”
Ramón Cossío, justice for the Supreme Court for Justice in the Nation (SCJN), noted for his part that “this involves not only the act of leaving the place where one would desire to stay, but also it is a question of leaving due to finding oneself in a situation of extraordinary complexity. The phenomenon of the displaced continues without name in Mexico, and for this reason it is not attended to by the State.”
For more information (in Spanish):
Desdeña el gobierno desplazamientos forzados por la inseguridad: expertos, La Jornada 30 de noviembre de 2014
Al menos 170 mil personas desplazadas por violencia en México, Diariopresente, 1 de diciembre de 2014
Desplazados por violencia en México, un fenómeno ignorado que afecta al menos a 170 mil personas, Animal Politico, 1 de diciembre de 2014
Desplazados en México son víctimas y requieren tratamiento, CNN, 26 de julio de 2014
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Chiapas : “return without justice” of those displaced from the Puebla ejido (26 April 2014)
Chiapas: Public denunciation from those displaced from Banavil (16 September 2013)
Chiapas: The displaced of Banavil, Tenejapa in “precarious and inhumane conditions” (8 April 2013)
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