Human Rights Agency Urges Mexican Government to Find Missing 43 Students BERNAMA
go to original March 20, 2017

Parents and relatives of missing students leave the Interior Ministry building in Mexico City, after a meeting to press authorities to find the 43 students missing since a deadly police shooting in 2014 (Agence France-Presse)

Authorities should try to locate Mexico's 43 missing students "with the same determination" they used to capture escaped drug lord Joaquin "EL Chapo" Guzman, China's Xinhua news agency reported the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as saying on Friday.

"A state that has shown the capability to trigger the mechanisms to capture 'El Chapo', is a state that can locate the ... disappeared," IACHR representative Paulo Vannuchi said at a hearing on the case, according to the daily Milenio.

Mexican government launched a massive and persistent manhunt to locate serial escapee Guzman, who was recently extradited to the United States, where he is serving a prison sentence.

The hearing at the agency's headquarters in Washington comes two and a half years after 43 students of a teacher's college in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero were attacked, tortured, abducted and likely massacred in a crime that shocked Mexico and the world.

The bodies of the victims were never found, though two were confirmed dead after DNA tests positively identified burnt remains recovered near a river in the town of Cocula.

The official version of the mass kidnapping on Sept 24, 2014 maintains the students from Ayotzinapa were targeted for their political activism by the mayor of nearby Iguala, rounded up and handed over to a local drug trafficking and criminal organization.

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