Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.
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Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.
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Hundreds marched in the rain on Friday to demand justice for the 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 while on a field trip.
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The recent arrest of former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo, who oversaw the botched inquiry into the kidnapping and disappearance of the students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College.
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The disappearances and presumed deaths have been called a “state crime” by Mexico’s top human rights investigator.
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International experts have said Murillo’s investigation, which concluded the students had been mistakenly killed by a local drug gang, was riddled with missteps and abuses, including the torture of witnesses.
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Last week, a judge released nearly 100 arrest warrants related to the case.
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