Special Investigator Opens New Probe Into 43 Missing Ayotzinapa Students Channel News Asia
go to original December 1, 2015

Relatives of the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa school protest in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City (teleSur)

Mexico has created a special unit to investigate the disappearance of 43 students last year, yielding to longstanding demands of irate parents who dismiss the government version of what happened.

Prosecutors say municipal police in the southern town of Iguala abducted the students and handed them over to a drug gang, which killed them and incinerated their bodies at a landfill in September last year.

But independent experts have said there was no scientific proof that the students were incinerated at the landfill. They urged prosecutors to seek new lines of investigation.

Parents of the students have long been demanding a new investigation into a case that rocked a country painfully accustomed to drug-related violence.

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Related: Criminalizing the Victims: The Latest Anti-Ayotzinapa Strategy (teleSUR)

Related: Parents of Missing Students End Mexico City Protest Camp (Associated Press)

Related: Mexican Government Insists Ayotzinapa Students Are Dead (teleSUR)

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