The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) asked the Mexican government on Monday to guarantee truth and justice in the case of the 26 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa after the report of the Truth Commission.
The international organization requested in a pronouncement that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) have “an action solid and diligent institutional institution, which guarantees access to justice for the victims.”
This, he indicated, in order to “judicially determine the criminal responsibility of all the actors, including superiors, both civil and military, involved by action or omission in the serious human rights violations perpetrated.”
Although the UN-DH did not mention it, the detainee with the highest profile so far is Jesús Murillo Karam, who was in charge of the defunct Attorney General’s Office (PGR) during the case. o.
“We are facing a crucial moment to arrive at the truth and justice in the Ayotzinapa case,” stated Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, UN-DH representative in Mexico, in the statement.
The agency recognized the work of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice, which on August 18 presented a report concluding that the disappearance of the 43 students on 26 from September of 2014 was a “state crime” and that there is no indication that they are alive.
The UN-DH agreed with the report in rejecting the “historical truth”, as the Enrique Peña Nieto government version is known (2012-2018), which stated that corrupt police officers handed over the students to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered and incinerated them in a garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero.
Given “the importance of the information” revealed by the Commission for the Ver ity, the UN-DH recommended “immediate measures of non-repetition in accordance with the seriousness of the case.”
It requested, “at least, an immediate purge of the official who has participated actively or passively in the events September of 2014 and whoever has contaminated or obstructed the conduct of an effective investigation”.
He also suggested the strengthening of civilian controls over the Armed Forces in Mexico, and transparency and accountability of the competent authorities.
“We must continue advancing towards the right to the truth, which includes knowing the circumstances that allowed the attack against the students, the sequence of events, the role of the State and criminal groups in the criminal conspiracy and the final destination of the students”, Fernández-Maldonado concluded.
The controversy over the disappearance of the 43 youth from Ayotzinapa has revived almost a month after the 8th anniversary of the event.
The families of the students demanded on Friday “objective, scientific and indubitable” evidence that they are dead, while the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, promised this Monday that he will continue with his search, although he defended the investigation of the Commission for the Truth.
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