"Mexican 43 Students Missing Cases" investigation progress: governments at all levels have participated in the crime, and the military is also responsible for

Polar news reporter Man Da Huang Jiaqi

Comprehensive Associated Associated Press and the Guardian, the latest report from the Mexican Truth Investigation Committee showed that the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 was a crime supported by governments at all levels, involving the federal and state government's highest levels.

On September 26, 2014, more than 60 students from a normal school participated in the protests in Higua, Gralo, southern Mexico. When they returned, they were blocked and fired by the police. Six people in the conflict were killed on the spot, and 43 people were taken away.

This shocking world is called "43 students missing cases" and has become a famous case of Mexico.

Student relative protest (picture source: Guardian)

According to the first official investigation organized by Mexico's then President Eric Ponia Nito, it was the local government colluded with drug trafficking groups. The Mexican government said that these students were taken away under the instructions of the mayor and his wife of Iguala. After being taken away by the police, they were handed over to the local drug trafficking gang. The drug trafficking gangs killed them all, burned their bodies for 14 hours in the garbage landfill, and then sprinkled the ashes into the river. The reason why the mayor and his wife ordered were because they were worried that the speech of the mayor was protested and interrupted by the student.

The Mexican government has arrested 123 people, including 73 local police officials. Former Chief Prosecutor of Mexico said that this is the "historical truth."

However, according to the investigation of the Human Rights Commission of the American State of the Americas, the Mexican authorities could not stand on their claims. There was no enough fire to burn 43 corpses near the garbage dump that morning. They also questioned the federal authorities and the army of Mexican participating in the crime, not just local governments and police.

As the investigation of the Human Rights Commission between the American countries is very different from the official investigation of the Nito administration, they have been authorized by the Mexican government and demanded that the investigation was completely concluded by April 2016.

At the beginning of September 2019, after a yard was dug out of 119 bags of human residual limbs in a well in Harryko, Mexico, it once again caused a shock of the country. The Mexican government announced on September 18 that it will restart the investigation of 43 students' disappearance and massacre in 2014.

This investigation committee established by the current government has confirmed that the federal government, including the Mexican military and the federal police, has been very clear about the movement of students, including their schools that leave Gralo until the evening of September 24 were abducted in the city of Igua.

The committee revealed that the military has been closely monitoring these students, but did not take action to save them from the local policemen who killed students. There is a barracks of the Mexican military, which is only five minutes away from the place where the students are attacked. Nearly 40 soldiers testimony stated that they were scattered around Herguara to search for students who escaped.

The investigation committee also confirmed that a soldier sneaked into the student group and was also on a bus, so the army clearly knew what was happening. The soldier was also unknown.

The committee said that these students were not brought to the nearby garbage landfills as the last government claimed to be burned.

According to the Associated Press, Ernissas, the head of the investigation committee and deputy minister of the Ministry of the Interior, said on August 18 that this was a "government crime" and government officials at all levels participated in it. He said the military should be responsible for "doing, inaction or negligence."

Mexican President Andrees Manuel Lopez Oollador promised to the family members of the missing students that every government agency in charge of the administrative department would cooperate with the Investigation Commission to "find out the truth." He promised that no one would be free.

So far, only 3 of the 43 students have been confirmed, and the rest will not be seen.

- END -