Ayotchinapa Disappeared: The Mexican Army is to blame

Mexican soldiers were at least partially responsible for the disappearance of 43 students at the Ayutthaya teacher training school in 2014, an official report released Thursday confirmed.

“Their actions, their omissions or their participation allowed the disappearance and execution of the students as well as the murders of six other people,” Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas said during the public presentation of this report.

“There was no action by the institutions, but there were clear responsibilities of elements” of the armed forces, he added, without clarifying whether these “elements” are still active.

Mr. Encinas, president of the “Commission for the Truth about Ayotchinapa”, established by the decision of President Andres Manuel López Obrador in order to shed light on this case, also stated that it is necessary to continue the investigation into the involvement of the military in what he called a “state crime”.

In late March, Mr. López Obrador revealed that Navy officers suspected of tampering with evidence were facing investigations.

On the night of September 26-27, 2014, a group of students from the teachers’ school in Ayutthaya went to the nearby city of Iguala (Guerrero state, south) with the intention of “demanding” buses to go to the capital, where they wanted to participate in a demonstration.

According to the investigation, the 43 youths were arrested by police officers working with the Guerreros Unidos (“United Warriors”) drug cartel, then shot and their bodies charred, for reasons that still remain unclear — according to the original version, the killers thought they were members of a rival gang. The families of the victims reject the official version.

Almost eight years later, the remains of three of the victims have been identified.

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