Probe body comprising of international investigators and formed by the Mexican government have revealed a scathing 608 page report on Sunday. The investigators have been invited to help resolve the disappearance and probable killing of 43 students around two years back. While unearthing the widespread in criminal investigations, their probe has allegedly witnessed attempt of sabotage.
Mexican federal police and Guerrero state police have performed roles in the disappearance of the students on a black night of 2014. The disappearances and presumed killings of the students seem to be a coordinated effort involving different security forces, informs The Wall Street Journal, citing evidences exhibited by the report published on Sunday.
The case documents suggest that the students in their teens and early 20s have been rounded up by local police during a protest and handed over to a drug gang. The drug peddlers have allegedly burnt them in a landfill and dumped ashes in a river, reports Bloomberg.
The study report also reveals that 17 of the approximately 123 suspects arrested in the missing students' case have exhibited signs of beatings. In some cases, dozens of bruises, cuts and scrapes on the victims' body have also been observed. One suspect has alleged asphyxiation with a plastic bag while another accuses of being slapped on the ears causing bleeding due to breaking of eardrums, according to a report published in France24. Earlier in this month, the Mexican government has declined to extend the contract of the investigation team which works for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (CIDH). CIDH is the human rights branch for the Organization of American States. The contract is scheduled to expire on April 30. Meanwhile, the recently released documents by Mexican government suggest initiating investigations against police and military personnel. However, the authorities have failed to inform whether anyone has been arrested or charged. The 43 students of the Radical Teachers' College at Ayotzinapa of Iguala city in Guerrero state haven't been heard since that black night of September 2014. The incident has been transformed into permanent wounds in the psyche of modern Mexico and challenges the country in its way to claim for a first-world status. The search by the Ayotzinapa families for their missing sons has now become a symbol of the search of many others for more than 20,000 people. Those people have vanished in the past centering decade old violence by the warring criminal organizations.
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