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Tuesday, November 19
Mexican authorities remain in debt in the case of the 43 missing students: UN
The Mexican authorities have been responsible in the case of the 43 students missing from Ayotzinapa , considered this Wednesday Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, representative in Mexico of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH).
“There is still a need for truth and justice , of families that do not tire of fighting against a justice system that, even with the will and courage of officials, even complete government offices, they still have a lot to do ”, he declared in a virtual event.
The international official participated in the presentation of the report of the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center, which is dedicated to the defense of rights in Guerrero, southern Mexican state.
The report dedicated a space to the case of the 43 missing students on 26 September 2014 in Guerrero, a fact that has not yet been clarified despite the promises of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador .
“The case has changed to the country, the state of Guerrero, the accompanying organizations and the families of the victims seven years after the events occurred, ”Fernández-Maldonado indicated.
The Administration by Enrique Peña Nieto (2012 – 2018) promoted the “historical truth” that pointed out that corrupt policemen in Iguala detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which killed and incinerated them in a garbage dump in Cocula.
The current Government reopened the investigation in 2018 and collapsed this version by identifying in July last year the remains of Christian Alfonso Rodríguez in the Carnicería ravine, far from the garbage dump.
Even so, the representative of the UN-DH highlighted “the importance of political will going hand in hand with results and substantial and relevant information for the investigation.”
The official replied to the requests of the report, such as the call to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to “guarantee that all its personnel and offices, beyond the special prosecutor’s office, are at the service of justice and the truth of this case. “
He also asked that” the authorities use all the tools of the Mexican legal system to identify and eradicate complicity between non-state and state actors that hinder the progress of the case. ”
And urged the Secretariat of National Defense to “contribute through free access “To all relevant information.
” Omissions or negligence that hinder or prevent access to information must be investigated and sanctioned, “he concluded .
In addition to the case of Ayotzinapa, the representative of the UN-DH highlighted that the report offers an “x-ray” of the “widespread violence , extreme and incessant ”in Guerrero.
Cited the violence gender, the disappearance of people, community disputes, deficiencies in the justice system, corruption, collusion that exists in criminality and authorities, and forced marriage of minors.
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