The High Commissioner and various human rights mechanisms have insisted on the strengthening of civilian rather than military institutions.
Office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsUN-DH, called on the Mexican federal government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to strengthen civilian rather than military institutions.
This is in response to the President’s recent initiative to make the National Guard totally dependent on Secretary of Defense (Sedena)since it means greater control by the military command, unlike how the security organ was intended.
This is why both Michelle Bachelet, UN-DH High Commissioner, insisted that the use of the armed forces in public security tasks “should be exceptional, the last resort of a temporary nature and supervised by independent civilian bodies”.
In turn, in a statement released Aug. 11, the office insisted that the civilian nature of the National Guard and Public security be maintained in accordance with the Constitution.
For his part, in the face of constant and severe accusations, López Obrador denied that the principle with which the The national guard was created is betrayed, at the same time, he expressed that the purpose of the measure he wants to implement is to prevent the GN from “spoiling”.
“So that tomorrow they cannot say that the National Guard has not been taken care of and has been spoiled because it should have depended on a strong and professional institution like Sedena,” he commented on August 9. .
The UN-DF had previously called on the federal government to stop the militarization of the country. (Photo: Cuartoscuro)
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The position of the UN-DH is only the reinforcement of what had already been warned since last April when the organization published a report on Forced disappearance in Mexico.
In the document, the UN appeals to President Morenist for the army to return to the barracks and transform the National Guard into a civilian command as had been proposed at the beginning of its creation.
The organization recommended to the federal government an orderly, immediate and verifiable plan for the withdrawal of the armed forces, because throughout its six-year mandate, rather than withdrawing, the military presence had remained constant.
And it is that according to the UN report, the reforms of the security laws that have been promoted since 2006, under the mandate of the member of the PAN Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and its so called “War on Narco”, until today (2022)are characterized by the priority given to the militarization of Mexico.
In the event that the reform proposal is not approved by the Judiciary, the President will issue a Presidential Agreement to keep the GN under Sedena’s control. (Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Becerril)
This call is not fortuitous, it stems from what was found in the report made by the international organization in the face of the crisis of disappearances that the country is going through.
According to the document, officials and organized crime are responsible for the growing number of enforced disappearances in the territory. In addition, military elements have also been singled out as being generators of violence, since when increasing their participation outside the barracks in the War on Drug Traffickingan increase in violence was reported that affected the entire republic.
At the same time, during this period, complaints murders, torture and human rights violations increased, all allegedly perpetrated by Mexican soldiers and which were denounced by recommendations issued by the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH).
Source: infobae.com
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