Why an Argentine Team Plays Key Role in Mexico's #43x43 Students Case Jonathan Gilbert - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original November 19, 2014

Relatives of 43 missing students in Mexico give their blood to build a DNA bank to try and find their loved ones, who went missing in September. (NTDTV)

The disappearance – and likely massacre – of 43 students has sparked social unrest across Mexico. But as protesters take to the streets, federal forces and investigators have scoured sites along a river in Guerrero state, where the students’ bodies are said to have been burned and dumped less than two months ago.

Among those investigators are 12 forensic experts from Argentina. Their presence in Mexico throughout the case – digging up human remains at several clandestine graves and checking them against students’ DNA ­– is representative of the South American nation’s support for human rights issues far beyond its borders.

Argentina suffered a seven-year military dictatorship that ended in 1983. The country was plagued by profound rights violations, including torture, disappearances, and kidnappings. But in the decades that have followed, Argentina has moved to the forefront of advocating for international human rights – ranging from supporting new legal cases that hold dictatorship-era abusers from other countries accountable to identifying bodies in mass graves.

...In Guerrero state now, the Argentines are working as independent experts on behalf of the 43 students’ families.

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