Sentence examples for Number of disappearances from inspiring English sources

Since then the number of disappearances, house burnings and killings has risen.

"The number of disappearances is constantly growing," said the group's local researcher, Serazhutdin Datsiyev.

Narrating in the present tense, Vera speaks of the overwhelming number of disappearances in Veracruz and says, "The number of disappearances begins to rise when Javier Duarte becomes governor".

Sri Lanka already has the second highest number of disappearances reported to the UN of any nation.

Police figures show the number of disappearances has increased from 51 in the first two months of 2012 to 150 in January and February of this year.

Images of small, unassuming Fan and tall, kindly Reg are being painted on the ends of the row houses, as a protest against a growing number of disappearances.

During the dirty war, the largest numbers of disappearances occurred in the southern state of Guerrero.

"There has been a dramatic improvement in the treatment of IDPs and their living conditions … [and] numbers of disappearances have experienced a steady and significant decline across the island since the end of the war," one dispatch said.

Precise numbers of disappearances are difficult to pin down, human rights advocates say, partly because family members fear that reporting missing relatives could endanger the relatives or even themselves.

Police statistics indicate that the numbers of disappearances almost doubled during 2012 2013.

The possibility that the decline in recorded homicide under the gang truce might have been accompanied by increases in the numbers of disappearances has been sustained by both the media and local crime and safety experts (Savenije and Van der Borgh 2014; Rivera Virúes 2014).