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Expert Panel Rejects Official Account Of What Happened To 43 Murdered Mexican Students
An independent report found there was “no evidence” to support the government’s claim that the students’ bodies were cremated in a garbage dump.
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The official account of what happened to 43 students who disappeared, and were presumed murdered, in southern Mexico last year has been challenged in a new, independent report released Sunday.
The Mexican government has contended that the students from the city of Ayotzinapa were murdered by a local drug gang in conjunction with local police and city officials. Mayor Jose Luis Abarca was charged in November with the murder of six students who were allegedly killed during a confrontation with police before the other students went missing on Sept. 26.
The country’s attorney general said drug gang members had admitted to killing the students and officially declared them dead in January. A four-month government probe concluded that students, who had been protesting against local authorities, were rounded up by corrupt police and handed to gang members. Their bodies were said to have been incinerated in a garbage dump before being placed in plastic bags and thrown in a river. “This is the historic truth of the events, based on evidence provided for by science,” Attorney General Murillo Karam said at the time.
However, a report released Sunday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) rejected some of these key claims. “There is no evidence that supports the hypothesis based on testimony that 43 bodies were cremated in the municipal dump of Cocula on Sept. 27, 2014,” the report concluded, according to a copy seen by the Wall Street Journal.
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The official account of what happened to 43 students who disappeared, and were presumed murdered, in southern Mexico last year has been challenged in a new, independent report released Sunday.
The Mexican government has contended that the students from the city of Ayotzinapa were murdered by a local drug gang in conjunction with local police and city officials. Mayor Jose Luis Abarca was charged in November with the murder of six students who were allegedly killed during a confrontation with police before the other students went missing on Sept. 26.
The country’s attorney general said drug gang members had admitted to killing the students and officially declared them dead in January. A four-month government probe concluded that students, who had been protesting against local authorities, were rounded up by corrupt police and handed to gang members. Their bodies were said to have been incinerated in a garbage dump before being placed in plastic bags and thrown in a river. “This is the historic truth of the events, based on evidence provided for by science,” Attorney General Murillo Karam said at the time.
However, a report released Sunday by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) rejected some of these key claims. “There is no evidence that supports the hypothesis based on testimony that 43 bodies were cremated in the municipal dump of Cocula on Sept. 27, 2014,” the report concluded, according to a copy seen by the Wall Street Journal.
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