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IACHR: Investigators Reckless With Mexico's Ayotzinapa 43 Case

  • The 43 students of Ayotzinapa disappeared on September 26, 2014.

    The 43 students of Ayotzinapa disappeared on September 26, 2014. | Photo: Reuters FILE

Published 29 November 2018
Opinion

The National Human Rights Commission of Mexico Wednesday accused the authorities of disseminating partial or false information about the disappearance of the students.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the handling of the case, involving Mexico’s disappeared Ayotzinapa students, has fundamental discrepancies.

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"The Special Mechanism observes that a series of challenges persist such as a fragmented, incomplete investigation and without a clear investigative directive," the two-year report disclosed.

"The IACHR considers that despite all the proceedings contained in a dossier of more than 618 volumes, the investigations continue fragmented, and require a comprehensive analysis. As this mechanism has pointed out, many of the proceedings appear to be incomplete, are discarded or fail to be processed procedurally," the agency detailed.

The National Human Rights Commission of Mexico Wednesday also accused the authorities of disseminating partial or false information about the disappearance of the students.

"Without having verified evidence, it was taken for granted that the 43 disappeared students had been executed," ombudsman Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez stated in a news conference. Gonzalez added that "the truth cannot be subject to interests or political conjunctures,” remarking that "the very serious and unfortunate collusion between authorities and criminal organizations caused the loss of life of 6 people, injuries to 42, and the forced disappearance of 43 more." 

IACHR noted, in the report, that the investigation of the 43 missing students unequivocally reflects grave mismanagement by "the lack of arrests of state actors per action or omission."

Gonzalez also said, "Mexico is a country in which, often, the truth is denied or hidden."

Officials of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government have postulated that local police handed over the students to drug traffickers, who killed them, burned their bodies and discarded the ashes into a river.        

"The commission is concerned that there is not yet a change in the official narrative regarding the line of investigation of the Cocula dump (where state officials say the 43 students were killed)," the IACHR report dismisses.

The International Group of Independent Experts, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) have all sided with the IACHR.

President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has, however, announced that a truth commission will be established by his administration.

The 43 Ayotzinapa students disappeared on September 26, 2014.

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