Relative of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, during the message of the group of experts of the IACHR. Mario Guzmán (EFE)
The Mexican ombudsman
's office
published this Wednesday a very critical report on its own investigation of
the Ayotzinapa case
.
Reported in 2018, the document was rejected at the time by the families of the missing student teachers.
The group of experts that the IACHR commissioned to Mexico to investigate the case and the team of Argentine experts who helped in parts of the investigation also censured him, for being pro-government, re-victimizing and lax.
Today, the institution itself, under a new administration, has proved them right.
In just under 500 pages, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) breaks down the actions of its predecessors, led by José Larrieta, a former official of the former Attorney General's Office (PGR).
The
ombudsman
's office points out that the work of Larrieta and his team presents "deficiencies", that they also ignored "the action of the Armed Forces" and that they prepared technical reports without going to the scene, among other criticisms.
Presented in its day as the great investigation of the Ayotzinapa case, with more than 2,000 pages and hundreds of interviews, expert opinions and proceedings of all kinds, the report of the old CNDH ran aground due to its own conclusions, indicating that up to 19 of the 43 disappeared students they could have been killed and cremated in the Cocula garbage dump.
As evidence pointed to the discovery of 19 bones of the ear, petrous, who had never commanded to be analyzed.
Argentine experts experts for decades in forensic scenarios have always argued that all bones of those who could have obtained genetic material passed through the laboratory.
The case of the petrosas joined the assessment that the old CNDH made of the relations between students of the Normal School of Ayotzinapa and organized crime groups in the region.
Thus, parts of the old report seemed like an investigation of the criminality of the normalistas and not of their attackers.
At the end and Cape, the number of students that September 26, 2014 had moved to Iguala, was attacked by a conspiracy of criminals and authorities and not to the contrary.
The new report indicates not only focus errors, oversights but difficult to explain.
In the case of the application of the Istanbul protocols, for example, the studies carried out by experts to determine if a person has suffered torture.
According to the new report, the studies of the old CNDH "did not allow the documentation of torture practices carried out on various detained persons."
In its day, the CNDH said that it had studied 72 possible cases of torture of detainees in the case, during the first months of the investigations, then directed by the PGR, assisted by the Secretary of the Navy.
The Ombudsman's office determined that only eight of the 72 could prove torture.
His investigations became evident some time later when the video of one of the detainees, Carlos Canto, being tortured by PGR personnel, emerged.
In the Canto case, the CNDH determined that there had been no torture.
The new administration points out more errors or omissions: "There was no differential and specialized approach, at the time of writing the recommendation and especially at the time of providing care to the victims, given that several students, as well as their mothers or fathers, belong to indigenous peoples. Indians who inhabit the state of Guerrero. "
In addition, “the importance of investigating the chain of police middle commands, and their participation by actions or omissions during the victimizing events, was not considered.
And also that "it was acted under a logic of ministerial investigation and not of documentation of human rights violations."
The document concludes: “The context was used to criminalize and stigmatize the students and the Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa.”
In the case of the Armed Forces, the Ombudsman's office insists on what the families of the 43 have repeated over the years and, more recently, the group of experts from the IACHR, which presented its latest report on the case just a few weeks ago: The Army must fully cooperate with the investigation.
The intervention of the Army in the Iguala case must be thoroughly known.
It is a major issue to get to the truth of these unfortunate events, since to date there are still doubts about the degree of participation of military personnel in the events that occurred on September 26 and 27, 2014, for which a deep investigation is required. and exhaustive investigation by the law enforcement authorities and a committed collaboration of SEDENA”, reads the text.
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