An independent committee investigating the disappearance of 43 students of Mexico in 2014 has accused the armed forces. That too stating the force withheld information about the case on purpose.
Officially, cartel members murdered the pupils and burned their bodies. Yet what happened to them is a subject for fierce debate.
In August, a government-backed truth committee labeled the tragedy a “state crime.” While claiming that the military is directly or indirectly responsible.
According to Carlos Beristain, a member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), there was “internal decision not to provide more information”.
The experts on the commission saw a document from the General Staff of the Mexican Defense Secretariat with instructions to “give an agreed response.”
“That is not acceptable to us,” Beristain said. In addition, witnesses had told the commission that intelligence documents are dispersed to different locations to conceal them.
Angela Buitrago Says
According to Colombian lawyer Angela Buitrago, who is also a member of the truth panel, the GIEI. A body established in 2015 by an agreement between the Mexican government. And the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), they have “renewed” aspects of the investigation.
This implies that the prosecutor’s office could reactivate arrest warrants against around 20 military personnel involved. Also cancelled in September.
She went on to say that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has “specifically requested a report.”
Investigators initially claimed that the students, who were on their way to a protest in Mexico City, were detained by corrupt police. And turned over to a drug cartel. Which mistook them for members of a rival gang.
According to an official report in 2015, cartel members murdered the students, Mexico. And burned their bodies at a garbage dump.
Only three people have been recognised as victims.
The original findings, which did not assign blame to military personnel. Relatives and independent experts rejected it.
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of nine Guerrero state police officers suspected of involvement in the abduction. While the United States deported a former police officer. Who is also suspected of involvement in the disappearance in January?
