Military Says One of the Missing Ayotzinapa Students Was an Active Soldier Melissa del Pozo - VICE News
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Parents of the missing students have maintained their movement for almost nine months. (Hans-Maximo Musielik/VICE News)

Mexico's military has acknowledged that one of the 43 young men who were kidnapped and allegedly killed by a drug gang in the state of Guerrero last year was a Mexican soldier.

The revelation made by the newsmagazine Proceso this week highlighted the persistent confusion and doubts still surrounding the case of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, who were disappeared after coming under police and gang fire on September 26, 2014.

A Proceso reporter filed a public-information request with Mexico's Secretariat of Defense — or Sedena, as the Mexican army is known — asking if any of the missing students were members of the military.

In response, Sedena said that one of the 42 students who officially remain missing "corresponds" to the name of an active-duty soldier.

The wording opened the possibility of a repeating name belonging to two separate people, but Sedena's statements also made reference to a "disappeared soldier," confirming its version of the claim. Military officials did not release the man's identity.

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Related: Inconsistencies Continue to Erode Government's Version of How 43 Ayotzinapa Students Disappeared (Mexico Voices)

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