Attorney General's Office Backs Down from 'Historic Truth' in Student Case Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias - Agence France-Presse
go to original September 16, 2016

Parents of the students joined thousands of protesters in Mexico City on Thursday, the eve of Independence Day, under the rallying cry "resign now," although the demonstration was also directed at Pena Nieto's handling of drug violence, corruption and the economy. (Ruptly TV)

Almost two years after the disappearance of 43 students, the Mexican attorney general's office is backing down from its conclusion that the young men were incinerated at a garbage dump.

With experts repeatedly casting doubt over the government's "historic truth," investigators are searching for the students elsewhere and looking into the possible collusion of other police officers in the disappearance.

"The attorney general's office has an open investigation, which won't rest until this is cleared up," deputy attorney general for human rights Eber Betanzos told AFP in an interview.

Prosecutors have several lines of investigation but "none is conclusive," Betanzos said on Wednesday.

The case is one of Mexico's worst human rights tragedies, sparking international outrage and anger at home against President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.

The students vanished on September 26, 2014, after corrupt police in Iguala, southern Guerrero state, abducted the young men after they hijacked buses for a protest in Mexico City, a common practice in their radical teacher training school.

The officers then handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

But what comes next is a source of heated debate.

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