Opinion: Faulty Ayotzinapa Probe Indicts Mexico's Drug War

[a la izquierda]

A year ago Saturday, 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers’ college went missing in the city of Iguala. Authorities said the students were abducted by municipal police and turned over to members of a local drug gang, who killed them and incinerated their bodies. A new investigation by an international panel of experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) released on Sept. 6 contradicts that claim. In a withering 560-page report, it said the sustained, coordinated and vicious nature of the attacks indicate a far more sinister and sweeping plot, refuting the government’s account of the students’ fate.

“This report provides an utterly damning indictment of Mexico’s handling of the worst human rights atrocity in recent memory,” José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director at Human Rights Watch, said on Sept. 6. “Even with the world watching and with substantial resources at hand, the authorities proved unable or unwilling to conduct a serious investigation.”

In January, Mexico’s Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam announced the case was closed, raising concerns that the truth would be permanently obscured, the public outcry would dissipate and the students would join tens of thousands of others for whom truth and justice are elusive.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. The government can't look for an answer it has already known from the first, no doubt.

This is an excellent article, particularly the last paragraph.

(It just occurred to me, after reading about it again, the odd act of having gouged out the young teacher's eyes, and hacking off his ears may have been done in a way to leave a message about "seeing and hearing" too much, or knowing too much to be allowed to live. Or, it was simply done to inflict additional suffering, which is clearly the intention, anyway.)

It's good the author has dared to write what so many people has been thinking from the first about this massacre.

Thank you.