Fathers and mothers 43 missing young people from Ayotzinapa in September 2014 and to students of a rural school located in the southern state Warriorsettled this Thursday in the camp in front of Military Camp 1, which is located in the city of Mexicothe capital of the country.
The session should last until Monday, when a meeting will be held at Minister of Internal Affairs (Ministry of the Interior), that is, until Tuesday, the day when nine years since the disappearance of 43 students.
Students and family members have set up a tent where they will camp for the next few days in front of the site, which is a request to the Mexican military to provide missing information so they can find the whereabouts of their classmates.
“We are in the Campo Militar 1 battalion, where the data of all the battalions in the country are located,” he indicated. Mario Gonzalezfather of César Manuel Gonzálezone of the 43 missing students.
“They are nothing more than criminals, cowards with guns,” the father said, referring not only to what happened on September 26, 2014, but also to all the protection of military installations where they are placed, which includes wire, spikes, barricades and hundreds of soldiers.
With the arrival of students and relatives of the missing young people, activities related to the ninth anniversary of the case, one of the most emblematic in the recent history of Mexico and the long wait for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promised to solve it before the end of his mandate (October 2024) and with which the parents met on Wednesday.
After leaving the meeting, the parents explained that they were asking the army to provide them with the missing documentation about the case and that it could help in discovering the whereabouts of the students.
They were disappointed by the refusal of the president, who assured that all the information had already been submitted, because they reminded that the existence of those documents missing from what was submitted by the Army was confirmed by Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) created by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The GIEI recently withdrew from the country because it was unable to advance the investigations due to the obstacle posed by the lack of full cooperation of the Armed Forces in the investigation.
The sit-in comes ahead of the ninth anniversary of the young people’s disappearance, as pressure mounts on López Obrador to fulfill his promise to shed light on the case during his term in office, which necessarily includes the release of all information related to the military’s involvement in the case, the parents assured.
The The government’s truth commission The Mexican government concluded last year that the incident was a “state crime” involving authorities at all levels, including the armed forces.
López Obrador’s government denied the controversial version of the government Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018)so called. the “historical truth,” which claimed that corrupt police officers detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, who killed and burned them in the Cocula dump.
Source: Panama America
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