Army General Says for IGIE to Interview Soldiers Would Violate Legal Due Process Jose de la Paz Perez - La Jornada Guerrero
go to original September 13, 2015

Army soldiers cannot be interviewed by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) because they would be breaking the law. The IX Military Region, headquartered in Acapulco, pointed out that in the case of the disappearance of the 43 students Ayotzinapa, "the principles of due process would be violated, and therefore the fundamental rights of the military, placing them in legal uncertainty and vulnerability."

In a statement sent to La Jornada Guerrero, Staff Brigadier General Arturo Vallarta Tafolla, cites Articles 1, 16, 21 of the Mexican Constitution and Article 73 of the Federal Code of Criminal Procedure, which refer to the obligation of the authority to carry out only those acts that the law expressly authorizes "which must be properly grounded and motivated," so the IGIE's request "lacks legal grounding".

On November 12, 2014, the Mexican government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) signed an agreement for the incorporation of technical assistance into the investigation of the events in which 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School were disappeared. This agreement created the IGIE, made up entirely of foreigners, explains the document sent by the military office.

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