Mexico: independent body concludes 43 missing students not cremated in Cocula
- 9 years ago
Relatives have always rejected the findings of the Mexican government’s official investigation into the fate of 43 students who went missing in September 2014. Now, nearly a year later, an independent inquiry has also dismissed the account, citing deep flaws.
The government said the bodies were burned at a rubbish dump just hours after the group went missing in Iguala, south west Mexico on September 26, 2014.
But the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) says there is no evidence of incineration in the area where the trainee teachers were allegedly cremated.
“The collected evidence of the vegetation, the condition of the rubbish dump, evidence of fire, etc, shows the minimum fire necessary for the cremation of the 43 bodies could not have occurred in the garbage dump in Cocula. After verifying the evidence, the group is convinced that the event did not occur in the rubbish dump in Cocula, under those conditions,” said Carlos Martin Beristain, a member of the independent g
The government said the bodies were burned at a rubbish dump just hours after the group went missing in Iguala, south west Mexico on September 26, 2014.
But the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) says there is no evidence of incineration in the area where the trainee teachers were allegedly cremated.
“The collected evidence of the vegetation, the condition of the rubbish dump, evidence of fire, etc, shows the minimum fire necessary for the cremation of the 43 bodies could not have occurred in the garbage dump in Cocula. After verifying the evidence, the group is convinced that the event did not occur in the rubbish dump in Cocula, under those conditions,” said Carlos Martin Beristain, a member of the independent g