The Mexican government's attorney said Saturday that the government is prioritizing finding the 43 Ayotzinapa students that were forcibly disappeared, just days before the second anniversary of one of the country’s most important cases of human rights abuses.
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According to the official statement, the investigation will remain open so investigators can know for certain what happened to the young students, acquire information to know their whereabouts and sanction every person that was responsible.
The government’s office stressed “the importance of achieving full justice in this case.”
The statement also indicates that any aspect of research in which there is controversy over differences of technical criteria, will be clarified, and will be done in accordance with a previous agreement between the governmentand the relatives of the victims.
The government’s official version says local police apprehended the 43 students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos on the night of September 26 and early hours of September 27, who had commandeered a bus to travel to a protest, and handed them over to a gang known as Guerreros Unidos.
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Authorities claim the gang killed the students and burned their bodies in a garbage dump nearly 20 miles south of the town of Iguala, and that the remains were later dumped in the San Juan River near the town of Cocula.
Forensic evidence, fire investigations, and satellite images, however, have repeatedly cast disproved on the government’s claims, while family members have accused the government of sharing responsibility for the disappearances.