Mexican security forces were complicit in kidnapping of 43 student teachers, report reveals

Report finds army, navy, police and intelligence agencies knew, minute by minute, where the student teachers were

Mexican security forces at local, state and federal level knew about the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and were complicit in their disappearances, a report prepared by an independent investigatory panel has concluded.

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) – a panel appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights who were tasked with investigating the case – said in the report on one of Mexico’s most notorious human rights scandals that the army, navy, police and intelligence agencies knew, minute by minute, where the student teachers were.

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