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alleged perpetrators. Today there is still no certainty about the fate or whereabouts of the people who
disappeared.
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See Appendix 4 “La tragedia en la región fronteriza de Coahuila: Allende, los Cinco Manantiales y Piedras
Negras” and Appendix 6 “La desaparición de personas en Allende, Coahuila, a partir de marzo de 2011. El
Estado Mexicano” of the report State of Neglect: Los Zetas, the State, Society and the Victims of San
Fernando, Tamaulipas (2010) and Allende, Coahuila (2011), available at
http://eneldesamparo.colmex.mx/#anexos.
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See Appendix 1 “Panorama de la violencia en México” and Appendix 4 “La tragedia en la región
fronteriza de Coahuila: Allende, los Cinco Manantiales y Piedras Negras” of the report State of Neglect: Los
Zetas, the State, Society and the Victims of San Fernando, Tamaulipas (2010) and Allende, Coahuila (2011),
available at http://eneldesamparo.colmex.mx/#anexos.
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Open Society Justice Initiative, Undeniable Atrocities: Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico,
Open Society Foundations, 2016, p. 102.
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Original text reads: “Insofar as the ‘widespread’ element is concerned, this has long been defined as
encompassing ‘the large scale nature of the attack, which should be massive, frequent, carried out collectively
with considerable seriousness and directed against a multiplicity of victims’.” International Criminal Court,
Pre-Trial Chamber II, Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorization of an
Investigation into the Situation in the Republic of Kenya, ICC-01/09, 31 March 2010, para. 95. Available at
https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2010_02399.PDF
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Original text reads: “a widespread attack may be the ‘cumulative effect of a series of inhumane acts or the
singular effect of an inhumane act of extraordinary magnitude’.” International Criminal Court, Pre-Trial
Chamber II, Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorization of an Investigation into
the Situation in the Republic of Kenya, ICC-01/09, 31 March 2010, para. 95. Available at https://www.icccpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2010_02399.PDF
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Open Society Justice Initiative, Undeniable Atrocities: Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico,
Open Society Foundations, 2016, p. 102. See also the section of this report entitled “Panorama de la violencia
en México.”
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June 7, 2016, Open Society Justice Initiative, in partnership with the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y
Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, the Centro Diocesano para los Derechos Humanos Fray Juan de Larios,
I(dh)eas Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos, the Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de
Derecho and Ciudadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos, presented the report Undeniable Atrocities:
Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico.
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Open Society Justice Initiative, Undeniable Atrocities: Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico,
Open Society Foundations, 2016, p. 21
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Open Society Justice Initiative, Undeniable Atrocities: Confronting Crimes against Humanity in Mexico,
Open Society Foundations, 2016, p. 168.
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