Families of Missing Students Reject Government's Explanation of Events The Associated Press
go to original January 28, 2015

Investigators in Mexico say they are now certain that 43 college students missing since September were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state.The attorney general on Tuesday cited confessions and forensic evidence from an area near a garbage dump where the September 26 crime occurred that showed the fuel and temperature of the fire were sufficient to turn 43 bodies into ashes.Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexico City. (Al Jazeera English)

MEXICO CITY — Parents of 43 college students missing since last year angrily rejected the Mexican attorney general’s declaration that investigators are certain the youths were killed and incinerated after being seized by police in the southern state of Guerrero.

In an emotional news conference Tuesday night, the parents accused the government of seeking to wrap up the investigation even as they still have many unanswered questions — and hold out hope of finding their children alive.

“We don’t believe anything of what they say,” said Carmen Cruz, mother of 19-year-old Jorge Cruz, one of the disappeared students. “We are not going to allow this case to be closed.”

Lawyer Vidulfo Rosales, who is representing the families of the students from a rural teachers college, presented a 10-point argument explaining why they believe the investigation must continue, including a lack of conclusive forensic results. DNA tests were only able to positively identify the remains of one of the students, and an Austrian laboratory assisting in the case has said it appears impossible to identify the others.

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