Arguments Against Enforced Disappearance

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name removed from the registers, every record of everything you have ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”-George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1. Formally called Enforced Disappearance as described in the quote above is still in play today. Enforced Disappearance is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State by the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.Not only that But actually this qualifies as a crime against humanity since July of 2002 by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, this seems a little far fetched to most people but this is an issue that to great to ignore. Sadly, cases are found in our own backyard with Mexico and in our own country of the United States, yet we still put the cases to aside.

An example close to home is our neighbors in the south, Mexico is notorious for it’s Enforced Disappearance in the country. In the time span from 2006 to 2011

Especially when you connect the dots of this being possibility in any country. What adds to the fear is that the government or it’s officials can help you since they are the one who are causing the people to erased from society. Commonly found cases of this is found in military base governments. Take for example Colombia, who has a reportedly 28,000 people that had disappeared due to the country’s civil conflict. Today even Colombians still find people missing and for the unfortunate, the people find the bodies of their friends and families