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Mexico Stalled Independent Probe Into Disappearances of 43 Students

posted by martyb on Monday April 25 2016, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the stonewalling dept.

n1 writes:

A team of independent investigators, probing the disappearance and alleged killing of 43 college students at the hands of criminal gangs in 2014 in Mexico, is set to dispute the government's account of what happened, reports said Friday.

[...] The international panel faced a sustained campaign of harassment, stonewalling and intimidation, The New York Times reported. The panel of experts alleged that the investigators endured planned attacks from Mexican news media and a refusal by the government to turn over documents or grant interviews with essential figures.

[...] The Mexican government had earlier concluded that the 43 students, who were in the city of Iguala in southwestern Mexico as part of a protest, were kidnapped by police officers working for criminal gangs, who then killed and incinerated them in a garbage dump of a nearby town.

The attorney general, who led the government probe, reportedly called the office's finding the "historic truth."

The independent investigators have opposed this version and maintained that the government's account of the events was based in part on confessions apparently extracted by torture. The panel also dismissed the theory that the students were burnt beyond identification at a rubbish dump as physically impossible.

Source: The International Business Times

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 25 2016, @07:57AM

    by c0lo (156) on Monday April 25 2016, @07:57AM (#336874) Journal

    And that's why actual Mexicans love Trump.
    ...Search Keyword: "Autodefensa"

    I looked [wikipedia.org].
    I don't see anywhere the mention of them loving the idea of the "Big Beautiful Wall" or Trump for the matter...
    Either you provide a citation or I'll feel this is BS.

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM (#336876)

    a citation [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday April 25 2016, @09:13AM

      by c0lo (156) on Monday April 25 2016, @09:13AM (#336892) Journal

      Then [soylentnews.org] I call bullshit.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM (#336877) Homepage Journal

    Actually, I don't know why we should give a damn wether Mexicans love Trump, or Obama, or any other president. Mexicans don't vote for their presidents based on how much the US likes their candidates. As for "actual Mexicans" - I can't help wondering WTF GP means by that. Mexicans aren't a monolithic voting block in the US or Mexico, any more than women are a monolithic voting block, or blacks, or Irish, or Russians.

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    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday April 25 2016, @04:07PM

      by jmorris (4844) on Monday April 25 2016, @04:07PM (#336988)

      I think a distinction is being drawn between "actual Mexicans" as in general opinion among Mexicans in both Mexico and America vs the La Raza / Univision Community Organizers who get all of the face time on the boob tube.