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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
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 25 2016, @04:08PM
In September 2015, the results of a six-month investigation by a panel of experts assembled by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights became known to the public.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights [...] is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.
The IACHR is a permanent body, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., United States
So it's headquartered in the U.S., at least. I guess I'm in "shit sucks down there but why should I care per se" mode.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 25 2016, @05:25PM
Well to quote from your quote with emphasis:
The International Court of Justice is located in The Hague. Does that mean the Netherlands are involved in all its actions?
The headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Vienna. Does that mean Austria is involved in all its actions?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 25 2016, @06:08PM
Okay fine, you got me :)
Although I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption to make that the U.S. would be heavily involved in any international organization that has "American" in its name.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday April 25 2016, @07:38PM
:facedesk:
The saddest thing is I know most usamericans would agree with you. I don't know what to call it, ethnocentrism? provincialism? myopathy? hubris? simply ignorance? at a shocking scale.
American as an adjective indicates something or someone from the Americas. There are two of them. And the USA is only part of one of them. Look at a damn map.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 25 2016, @08:01PM
Yes I'm quite aware of that. What's your point?
Cf. the Monroe doctrine [wikipedia.org]. I may not be in favor of it but it's a historical fact.
If you look back through my posting history both here and the green site you'll see that I'm careful to refer to people as U.S. citizens, not "Americans," even though that's the generally-used term. I stand by every word of the phrasing I used in my post.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday April 25 2016, @08:31PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 25 2016, @09:00PM
Did you read this comment tree?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"