2015-10-22 08:49:00

Mexico student probe: soldiers will not face questioning


(Vatican Radio) The Head of Mexico's Armed Forces says that a new investigation into the massacre of student teachers has no power to question some of his troops, who were in the area at the time, but not involved. 

Listen to this report by James Blears in Mexico

The Mexican Government has historically allowed the Inter American Commission on Human Rights to start an official re-investigation into the case of the 43 student teachers,  arrested by Municipal Pólice at a protest rally in the Southern City of Iguala, and then handed over to gangsters who massacred them.

But Defence Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos says they will not be questioning soldiers who were in the área at the time. That  can only be done by Mexican Government Prosecutors.  This leaves an important first hand knowledge gap in the investigation.  The Commission has already done one probe,  producing a damning report, which contradicted the Government's versión of events, especially the forensic evidence.

 








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