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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: 5, Informative) by devlux on Monday April 25 2016, @06:22PM
Fuck dude just because it barely met with a blip on the US news media doesn't mean it wasn't a HUGE deal here in Mexico.
No one condoned this shit. There were marches, there were sit ins. There were people who torched the govt central offices in that state and burned it to the ground.
The Mayor fled the area and was found hiding 2,000 miles away in what was the largest manhunt in memory.
There are people today who still bring together memorial ceremonies and celebrations.
That thing was a HUGE deal that effected everyone from TJ to Cancun and it still is.
Quit being a small minded racist prick and assuming just because it didn't make the 6'oclock news in the USA, that it wasn't earth shattering down here to the people actually living it.
Then realize that Mexico prefers to be left the hell alone and an outside body trying to "dig truth" probably will be stonewalled simply because the natives here will assume that the "truth digger" has an agenda.