State Compelled to Release Information over 2010 Tamaulipas Massacre Laura Flanders - teleSUR
go to original August 25, 2014

A young girl crying over the coffin of a dead migrant in Tamaulipas, Mexico. (EFE)

Fours years after 72 bodies of Latin American migrants were found in a mass grave in Tamaulipas, on the Mexican border with Texas, the Mexican state has still denied the rights of the victims' families to know the details of investigation.

...Soon after the national and international media reported the massacre, the Mexican federal state announced the arrest of eight suspects, condemned in October 2010 for the 72 homicides.

However, in four years, the families of the victims have struggled for their right to the truth, as the government would not release the details of the investigation about the massacre, nor reveal whether any official from the state has been found responsible for the events or not.

One of the legal procedures families have launched may finally bring them justice, as the Federal Institute of Access to Information (IFAI) released a statement on Friday that compels the Attorney General of Justice (PGR) to publish the documents about the detention of 16 municipal police of San Fernando, detained in relation to the death of 72 migrants.

The PGR had previously refused to release the documents to one family, stating that there was a 12 year delay for being part of a previous, and yet not closed investigation. The IFAI added that the concealment of such information consisted in “serious violations of human rights”, and was “surpassed by the interest of society to know all the procedures that have been executed during the investigation, detention, trial and sanction of the culprits.”

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