Sergio Ocampo Arista
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, p. 12
Tixtla, Gro., It is urgent and urgent that the Mexican State demonstrate that it is capable of overcoming the obstacles of impunity and corruption, that it offer the families of the 43 disappeared normalistas, and the nation, the justice they deserve, concluded the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by presenting yesterday the third report of the Special Follow-up Mechanism of the Ayotzinapa Matter (Mesa).
He considered that at the time, Mexico had the capacity to truthfully explain the fate of the students, and the state agents made the decision to deploy a cover-up and evasion of responsibilities operation
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It should not be lost sight of, he pointed out, that the case of the 43 students of the Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos occurs in a context of disappearance of people that in this country exceeds 100 thousand
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He claimed that the state it must generate evidence that legally demonstrates the existence of this context of criminality that pre-exists in Guerrero; and the latent conflict between illegal groups, those dedicated to production, drug trafficking, coexistence with state authorities
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A delegation made up of Julissa Mantilla Falcón, president of the IACHR; Tania Reneaum, Executive Secretary; Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, IACHR rapporteur for Mexico; María Claudia Pulido, Deputy Executive Secretary for Monitoring; and Fiorella Melzi, Specialist Monitoring Coordinator for Mexico, arrived at Ayotzinapa at 10:00 in the morning.
They met privately with the parents of the 43 missing students and with students from the campus. Later, in a press conference, on the campus field, and in an atmosphere of melancholy, they presented the third report of the Mesa.
They reproached that the State has been collecting evidence, prosecuting, fabricating proceedings that gave rise to this obstruction of justice, and that this must be duly investigated
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Mantilla Falcón recounted the work they have done from January 2019 to date, a period in which the agency sent three technical opinions to the Special Unit for Investigation and Litigation (Ueilca), regarding international human rights standards. Forced disappearance is a violation that continues as long as the disappeared persons do not appear or their fate is not known.
they remembered.
In her speech, Arosemena de Troitiño warned: “Today, it is clear, in the face of progress there are worrying challenges that put at risk obtaining justice in the case; this report also has a count of all the elements that represent and represented the obstruction of justice with the so-called historical truth”.
recognized that there are significant, positive advances regarding the investigations; today the dynamics of the disappearance of the students, and the investigation of the facts of obstruction of justice are becoming known; The IACHR has been able to identify the conformation of evidence, the identification of possible perpetrators and the request for arrests
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At the end, the five members of the Mesa listened to the rondalla from Ayotzinapa, who sang songs alluding to the student struggle and brought tears to some of the attendees. Finally, the IACHR representative requested a minute of silence for the 43.
