According to the findings of the official investigation at the time, the youths were arrested by corrupt local police, who were in league with drug cartels, then shot and their bodies charred.
A Mexican federal judge on Monday ordered the remand of eight military officers suspected of involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, the government announced.
The 8 were charged and ordered to be remanded in custody for “the crime of enforced disappearance” of the Ayotchinapa students, the undersecretary for human rights, Alejandro Ensinas, said via Twitter.
The arrests of the armed forces men were announced a week after Mexico’s attorney general’s office reactivated 16 arrest warrants that were originally issued in September 2022 but later canceled.
They were also recorded about a month before the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), a body created in 2015 by virtue of an agreement between the Mexican government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), presented the conclusions of the investigation it carried out, at the end of July, according to with Carlos Martin Berstein, a member of
At the end of March, GIEI experts had already complained that the investigation had been obstructed by the Mexican army. According to them, information about the disappearance of the 43 students was deliberately withheld. “This is unacceptable to us,” said Mr. Berstein, who added that he had proof.
The 43 students disappeared on the night of September 26-27, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero state (south), where they had gone to commandeer buses to take them to the capital to participate in a mass mobilization.
According to the findings of the official investigation at the time, during the days of former president Enrique Peña Neto (2012-2018), the youths were arrested by corrupt local police officers, who had collaboration with the Guerreros Unidos (“United Warriors”) drug cartel. they were then shot and their bodies charred, for reasons that remain unclear — the killers reportedly thought their victims were members of a rival gang.
The families of the young people reject the official version.
GIEI, like the families, disagrees with the conclusions of the original investigation, which was led by former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Caram. He had not laid any blame on the military.
Mr. Murillo Karam was arrested in August 2022 and charged with “enforced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice.”
Source :Skai
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