Mexico City CNN —The United Nation’s human rights commissioner on Thursday accused Mexico’s military of obstructing an expert investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in a bloody incident that shook that country nearly nine years ago.
Last August, a Mexican truth commission report concluded that the students, who disappeared en route to a demonstration in Mexico City, had been victims of “state-sponsored crime.”The students, from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, were intercepted by local police and federal military forces while traveling through the southwestern city of Iguala in September 2014.
Survivors from the original group of 100 students said police officers and soldiers suddenly opened fire.
But dozens of students on the buses disappeared that night, and their fate remains unknown.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks at a morning conference on July 26, 2023 in Mexico City.
Persons:
Mexico’s, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Carlos Santiago
Organizations:
Mexico City CNN, United Nations, Human Rights, Armed Forces
Locations:
Mexico, Mexican, Mexico City, Ayotzinapa, Iguala