Mexican armed forces were complicit in students' disappearance, new report finds

Source: Reuters

Mexican armed forces were complicit in students' disappearance, new report finds

Lizbeth Diaz
Updated Tue, July 25, 2023 at 4:59 PM EDT·3 min read

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican security forces were complicit in the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and concealed documents which showed where some of them were taken, according to a new report by an independent panel of international experts presented on Tuesday.

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) tasked with investigating the case said in their findings that the Army, Navy, police and intelligence agencies knew, minute by minute, where the students were.

"They all collaborated to make them disappear," GIEI panel member Carlos Beristain told a press conference before the presentation of the group's final fact-finding report on one of Mexico's most notorious human rights scandals.

The Army said it had no comment. The Navy did not respond to a request for comment. Mexico's armed forces have long denied having information about the disappearances.

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