Harrowing Details Of Slaughtered Students, 43 Abductions As Orchestrated By Mayor’s Wife In Mexico –

[Judi Lynn]

Harrowing Details Of Slaughtered Students, 43 Abductions As Orchestrated By Mayor’s Wife In Mexico – Reports
By Athena Yenko | November 7, 2014 5:52 PM EST

On Sept 27, a body of a 22-year-old student was found spread on a street in Iguala, Mexico with his face skin peeled off and his eyes gouged out. Forty-three other students remain missing, three other students died and one in a coma in a criminal scandal allegedly orchestrated by the town's ex-mayor's wife.

On the night of Sept 26, 100 student teachers, including Julio Cesar Mondragon, rode a bus to Iguala to protest against the candidacy of Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the town ex-mayor's wife. While travelling, the bus was stopped and shoot by Iguala police officers. Mondragon was later found with peeled skin and gouged eyes, three other students died, with one 19-year-old student identified as Aldo Gutierrez shot in the head and had since been in a coma. The other 43 students were reportedly abducted by the Iguala police and remain missing up until this very day.

A friend of Mondragon said he saw all of his face skin was missing and his eyes were removed. The body was only recognizable because of the clothes he was wearing. The Iguala police officers are being associated to a criminal gang that has strong control with the local government, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told CNN.

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife were arrested Tuesday for allegedly orchestrating the crime. The couple, with the town's director of public safety are the "probable masterminds," Mexican officials alleged.

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1. Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response

Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response
Posted November 7th, 2014 by Human Rights Watch

Need Rigorous Investigations to Resolve Cases, Restore Justice System Credibility

These are the worst atrocities we’ve seen in Mexico in years, but they are hardly isolated incidents. Instead, these killings and forced disappearances reflect a much broader pattern of abuse and are largely the consequence of the longstanding failure of Mexican authorities to address the problem.

José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director

(New York) – The Mexican government delayed investigations into the enforced disappearances of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero State, and the killing of 22 people in Tlatlaya, Mexico State, Human Rights Watch said today. In the Tlatlaya case, state prosecutors sought to cover up military wrongdoing by coercing false testimony from witnesses.

The Mexican government should ensure thorough investigations of both episodes, Human Rights Watch said. Officials who failed to respond promptly to these incidents or sought to cover them up should be held accountable.

“These are the worst atrocities we’ve seen in Mexico in years, but they are hardly isolated incidents,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Instead, these killings and forced disappearances reflect a much broader pattern of abuse and are largely the consequence of the longstanding failure of Mexican authorities to address the problem.”

Human Rights Watch visited Guerrero and Mexico City beginning on November 3, 2014, to meet with parents of the missing students, witnesses to both incidents, and senior government officials in Mexico City, including Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam.

Murillo Karam and other justice officials expressed their commitment to finding the Guerrero students and ensuring full accountability for abuses. However, the office’s initial response to these cases was marred by significant delays. In the Iguala case, the office waited 10 days after the students disappeared before opening an investigation. In the Tlatlaya case, it took the Attorney General’s Office three months to intervene.

“These inexcusable delays have badly damaged the credibility of the Attorney General’s Office and generated mounting pressure for it to show results,” Vivanco said. “But it would be a grave mistake to go from doing little or nothing on these cases to rushing to reach unsubstantiated conclusions to appear to resolve them.”

In the Tlatlaya episode, military personnel killed 22 people inside an empty warehouse on June 30. Accounts from witnesses and a report by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said that at least 12 of them were extrajudicially executed.

State prosecutors detained two of the three surviving witnesses, beat them, repeatedly asphyxiated them with a bag, and threatened them with sexual abuse to force them to confess that they had links to people killed in the incidents and to say that the military was not responsible for the killings, the CNDH found. Police threatened and mistreated a third witness who saw how the military executed her daughter during the incident. Police also forced the three witnesses to sign documents whose content they could not read.

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http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/mexico-delays-cover-mar-atrocities-response