Parents of 43 missing Mexican students criticize government investigation on Ayotzinapa mass kidnapping

Parents of the 43 missing Mexican students continue to criticize the government's investigation calling it a cover-up. The case of the mass kidnappings of the students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College on September 26, 2014 in Mexico remains unresolved to this day.

According to ABC News, the students remain missing following police custody in the city of Iguala in the southern Guerrero State. The government probe insisted that corrupt local police officers turned the group over to a local crime syndicate and were presumably tortured and killed afterwards. However, the parents refused to accept the conclusion and denounced the findings as planted evidence and lies.

Several bags of charred human remains presumed to be those of the missing students were discovered by a river as announced by Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam in November 2014.

According to Vice News, the parents spoke at a press conference held on April 25 where they aired out several angry sentiments. One parent, Mario Cesar Gonzalez, alleged that the "evidence" found in Guerrero had been planted by prosecutors themselves. Gonzalez said, "They were the ones who planted the evidence in the San Juan river."

Others accused the government of withholding important details of the investigation and conjuring up alibis. Cristina Bautista, another parent, said, "From the start, we did not accept the government version and now we have scientific proof that it didn't happen as they said."

The mass kidnapping of the students severely tainted Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's reputation in the local, national and international community as the incident is recognizably one of the biggest political and public security scandals in his administration. According to Amnesty International USA, a new report conducted by experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights contradicts official government accounts and reflects a probe rife with anomalies.

Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said, "There seems to be no limit to the Mexican government's utter determination to sweep the Ayotzinapa tragedy under the carpet...  the Mexican authorities are sending the dangerous message that anyone can disappear in Mexico and nothing will be done about it."

The new report accused the government of a massive cover-up to hide possible officials involved in the incident as well as manipulation of evidence.

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Ayotzinapa kidnapping, Government conspiracy, political scandal

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