Credit: Forensic Architecture. <\/i><\/p>\n
The third anniversary of the the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that conducts research on FA pieces together the events of 26 September 2014, when about 100 normalistas<\/em> were attacked in the town of FA\u2019s main sources of evidence are the reports produced by the\u00a0Interdisciplinary GIEI found that there were nine separate attack between that Friday and Photo: Isabel Sangin\u00e9s\/SomosDelMedio.Org (Flickr). Algunos derechos reservados.<\/i><\/p>\n FA highlights five major shortcomings in the official Second, the Office of Third, the FA report sustains that, Fourth, the FA was able to Lastly, Forensic Architecture Gente unida por los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos. Foto: Semoan80, CC BY-SA 4.0.<\/i><\/p>\n A government investigation soon concluded that the police \u2013 in the pay of Additionally, the government claimed the students had gone into Iguala to One hypothesis regarding the motive behind The truth is, we may never get to the bottom of what happened and, like Credit: Forensic Architecture. The third anniversary of the the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College students (known as normalistas) in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico has come and has brought new developments with it.\u00a0 Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that conducts research on behalf of international prosecutors, human rights organizations, and political and environmental justice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTeachers' College students (known as
\nnormalistas<\/em>) in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico has come and has brought new
\ndevelopments with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nbehalf of international prosecutors, human rights organizations, and political
\nand environmental justice groups, has reconstructed the events of September 26 and
\n27, 2014, which is presented as a forensic tool for parents, investigators and
\nthe general public to further the investigation.\u00a0The interactive platform depicts
\na vivid account showing federal and state police agents in the vicinity at the
\nmoment when 43 students disappeared from Iguala.<\/p>\n
\nIguala, Guerrero, by local police in collusion with criminal organizations.
\nNumerous other branches of the Mexican security apparatus either participated
\nin or witnessed the events, including state and federal police and the
\nmilitary. Five people, including two students and a minor, were killed when the
\nofficers opened fire on the buses, and another student was later found dead,
\nhis body showing signs of horrific torture. Forty other were wounded, and 43
\nstudents simply vanished.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nGroup\u00a0of\u00a0Independent Experts\u00a0(GIEI, by its initials in Spanish)
\n\u2013 which was created in November 2014 through an agreement between the Inter
\nAmerican Court of Human Rights (IACHR), the Mexican State, and representatives
\nof the disappeared students in Ayotzinapa \u2013 whose findings point to several
\nwholes in the official investigations and raises several questions, all of
\nwhich the government has chosen to ignore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nSaturday in different places. This shows the scope and magnitude of operation
\nthat simply doesn\u2019t match the authorities\u2019 narrative. Also, the involvement of
\ndifferent police departments, including municipal, civil, and federal shows a
\nlevel of coordination that suggest involvement at the central, or federal,
\nlevel. Details remain very confusing, but the reconstruction of events
\nshed new light on what happened that night.\u00a0<\/p>\nForensic Architecture
\nreconstruction<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\ninvestigations. First, the version of events the Office of the General <\/strong>Prosecutor presented in court fails
\nto meet the evidence. This version confuses places, suppresses relevant scenes
\nand events, confuses the times, and presents events that are physical
\nimpossible to have happened the way prosecutors described, just to name a few.
\nThe Office continues to defend this version of events, last present before a
\njudge in December 2014, to this day. This version of events is so unsustainable
\nthat Forensic Architecture argues that \u201cmany of the defendants will easily be
\nable to reverse the accusations eventually\u201d, meaning that \u201cthe negligence in
\nthe investigation may cause that the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished\u201d,
\naccording to its report. The agency also found that the Office obtained
\nconfessions and declaration through \u201cquestionable methods\u201d, such as coercion, which
\nnot only violates human rights, but also prevents the truth from surfacing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nthe General <\/strong>Prosecutor failed to properly interrogate the Military
\nIntelligence Agent who reported to the commander of the Mexican
\nArmy\u2019s 27th Battalion based in Iguala and witnessed the main attack against
\nthe students for almost an hour, even taking videos and photos. The evidence
\nreconstructed by FA shows that the agent was at the exact place and time as the
\n\u201cfifth bus\u201d. The final GIEI report found that the hundred or so students were
\ntraveling in a convoy of five buses, though the \u201cfifth bus\u201d inexplicably disappeared
\nfrom the official case files at some point during the investigation. FA also found
\nthat the Military Intelligence Agent ran from the Iguala Municipal police,
\nleaving a civilian motorcycle behind. The report contends the Mexican Army then
\nwent back to the scene to retrieve the motorcycle used irregularly by the Agent
\nand not to look for the missing students.<\/p>\n
\nsimilarly to the Military Intelligence Agent and Federal Police officers, the
\nregional coordinator of the Guerrero\u2019s Ministerial Police was also present at
\nthe time the students went missing. This piece of information is relevant given
\nthe alleged Ministerial Police\u2019s role in the violent persecution of the
\nsurviving victims of the attacks. Additionally, the Ministerial Police\u2019s has
\nbeen publicly accused of having ties to organized criminal organizations, as
\nwell as the Iguala Police, claims that have not been adequately investigated. <\/p>\n
\nreconstruct the visual field, which shows a witness never identified by the Office
\nof the General <\/strong>Prosecutor. Also, neither the Office of the General
\nProsecutor nor the Office of Guerrero\u2019s Prosecutor timely requested the
\nsurveillance footage from security cameras installed on the courthouse\u2019s
\nexterior walls, which could have included valuable evidence. Later, the Supreme
\nCourt of Justice destroyed this footage.<\/p>\n
\npoints out that the need to clear up what happened at \u201cCrucero de Santa
\nTeresa\u201d, where a sixth bus carrying soccer players from a Chilpancingo team,
\nwhich had nothing to do with the Ayotzinapa Normal School, also came under
\ndeadly attack that night as it tried to leave Iguala. Even though this attack
\nis unrelated to the normalistas, <\/em>understanding
\nwhat happened there is key to understanding why local police were stopping
\nbuses in Iguala. The events around this sixth bus could hold valuable
\ninformation regarding the motives and the underlying cause behind the attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\nBut why?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\na local drug gang called Guerreros Unidos \u2013 mistook the students for members a
\nrival drug gang known as Los Rojos. But Mexicans were \u2013 justly \u2013 skeptical of
\nthis finding. Mexico\u2019s former Attorney General Jes\u00fas Murillo K\u00e1ram determined
\nthat the 43 normalistas<\/em> were taken to
\na dumping ground in Cocula to be burned and that their ashes were later thrown
\nto a river. Human rights, legal, and medical experts have consistently
\nquestioned these conclusions, and, thus the case remains open.<\/p>\n
\nboycott a political speech by the mayor\u2019s wife. But evidence shows the students
\nhad not even intended to go there. They had
\noriginally intended to commandeer more buses in the state\u2019s capital city, Chilpancingo,
\nbut decided to detour when they found federal police patrol cars near the toll
\nbooths where they were to intercept the buses. These makes both government\u2019s
\ntheories \u2013 that the students had political motives and\/or relation to a drug
\ngang that had come to challenge the dominant local gang, Guerreros Unidos \u2013
\nunsustainable. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nthe attack gained momentum about a year after the events and argued that the
\npolice were not after the students, but their bus. Speculations center on the
\nidea that the bus was carrying shipment of drugs and\/or money, which corrupt
\nofficers were trying to recover. This hypothesis suggests that the students
\nwere at the wrong place at the wrong time and that authorities, upon realizing
\ntheir mistake, covered up the facts and tried to pawn it off as a gang-related
\noperation gone awry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nFA predicts, perpetrators may go unpunished. But none of this means that Ayotzinapa
\nwill stop fighting for their own. Less than two weeks ago, 60 students seized a
\nbus to demand truth and justice for
\nthe 43 missing students. Local police opened fire at the bus and arrested 12
\nstudents, reflecting an attitude all to familiar to the residents of the small
\nrural town.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"