IAHCR Says Government's Probe Into Suspected Student Massacre 'Has Stalled' Alasdair Sandford - Euronews
go to original April 22, 2017

A human rights commission has accused Mexican investigators of stalling in their inquiry into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is conducting its own probe in the country.

Dozens of arrests have been made since the teaching students went missing after they were attacked and captured in September 2014. But the exact fate of the students remains unknown.

The group says it has no information on open investigations into irregularities involving Mexican authorities looking into the case.

IAHCR members have endorsed harsh criticism of the investigation carried out by international experts. It led to the resignation of a top prosecutor who conducted the initial inquiry and was suspected of manipulating evidence.

The group has rejected the prosecution’s initial findings that the youths were killed and burned in a rubbish dump in the town of Cocula, near Iguala. The current prosecutor says different hypotheses are being investigated.

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) says it has followed the experts’ recommendations, but still has no relevant results.

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