2023-09-28 01:50:35
An Austrian laboratory will analyze human remains which could belong to some of the 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, who disappeared nine years ago, and whose multiple versions of the investigation arouse numerous controversies, announced Wednesday the government.
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This announcement comes the day after a gathering in Mexico City of relatives of the disappeared who tirelessly demand justice.
Only three victims were identified by experts from the University of Innsbruck.
“We have other remains awaiting identification,” Alejandro Encinas, vice minister for human rights, said at a news conference.
Two sets of remains, out of more than 120 discovered, are awaiting genetic analysis at the Innsbruck laboratory, said Mr. Encinas, who heads the government-appointed Truth Commission.
Experts from Mexico’s attorney general’s office will also conduct their own genetic analyzes on other remains, he added.
According to Mr. Encinas, 132 suspects were questioned in this case. Among them, 41 members of the Guerreros Unidos drug trafficking cartel, 71 police officers, a former attorney general, 14 members of the army and five other officials.
These students from Ayotzinapa disappeared on the night of September 27, 2014 after going to Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, where they were preparing to board several buses to go to Mexico City and participate in a demonstration.
According to official versions, they were detained by the police, in collusion with criminals, and would have been delivered to the Guerreros Unidos cartel which would have murdered them.
Interception of cartel communications by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) indicates that the students were mistaken for members of a rival cartel and that the buses they had commandeered contained drugs, weapons or money, Mr. Encinas said.
Last year, the truth commission called the case a “state crime,” emphasizing that the military bore some responsibility, either directly or through negligence.
On July 26, the commission ended investigations begun in 2015, saying the military had refused to hand over sensitive information, making it “impossible” to continue its work.
Independent experts and relatives accuse the government of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of not having transmitted all the information it has on the case.
“We regret that AMLO’s response is to support (the army) and not truth and justice,” one of the parents, Emiliano Navarrete, said at the protest Tuesday.
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