The Mexican Army must refrain from “destroying, purging, eliminating, hiding or concealing the information” it possesses about the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapasince society is interested in knowing the circumstances of that crime that occurred on September 26, 2014, ordered a federal court by granting a provisional suspension in favor of the parents of the normalistas.
Unanimously, the three magistrates who are members of the Twenty-third Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of Mexico City determined that the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) You must preserve the data that is in your possession, and that has not been provided by that agency to the authorities investigating the disappearance of the students, points out the ruling whose copy is in his possession. HIGH LEVEL.
In this way, the parents of the 43 disappeared young people hope that the military personnel do not destroy the information they have about the events that occurred in the municipality of Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, almost nine years ago.
When granting the provisional suspension requested in an Amparo Trial promoted by the parents of the normalistas, the Collegiate Court warned that “the acts claimed are immersed in a procedure to search for the historical truth regarding events that could mean a serious violation of fundamental rights”, details the suspension.
With this, in a preliminary way, the federal justice agrees with the parents of the disappeared students, who claim in their amparo lawsuit that the Sedena has refused to deliver all the information generated by that agency during the year 2014, such and as denounced in his last report, on July 25, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI).
Specifically, the relatives of the 43 disappeared argue that the head of the Sedena, Luis Crescencio Sandoval Gonzalezas well as the officials in charge of the Regional Intelligence Fusion Center of Iguala, Guerrero, and the Intelligence Deputy Headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of National Defense, have repeatedly denied the delivery of at least 8 reports on what happened with the normalists.
These omissions on the part of the Army violate the decree issued by the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoron December 4, 2018, with which the president ordered that all federal government institutions should collaborate to clarify what happened to the students of the Normal Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa.
Human Rights Violations
According to the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, all the security institutions of the Mexican State participated in the events in which the 43 normalistas disappeared, highlighting in a central way the presence of elements of the Sedena, who would have known minute by minute what was happening to them. passing on to the young
In their sixth and last report, the experts emphasized that the Mexican Army has repeatedly lied, has refused to provide information, and has hidden that it has with non-institutionalized facilities in the state of Guerrero, where intelligence work is carried outand whose members are involved in this case.
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Returning to these arguments, the parents of the 43 normalistas request in their amparo request that the Sedena be ordered to preserve the information that it did not provide to the GIEI, and that it has not provided to the Attorney General of the Republic, nor to the Commission for the Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case, instance headed by the Undersecretary of the Interior Alejandro Encinas.
Since the information held by the Sedena is part of the human right to the truth that parents have, as indirect victims of the disappearance of their children, the Collegiate Court granted the suspension in favor of the parents of the normalistas, and with it revoked the refusal that had previously been issued by a District Court.
Thus, the provisional suspension was granted “for the effect of compel the military authorities refrain from destroying, purging, eliminating, hiding or concealing the information that in the amparo trial is identified as relevant for access to the truth and that at the time it is possible to decide about its delivery in the corresponding procedure”, adds the sentence.
suspicious opacity
The parents of the normalistas also complain about the entire chain of command of the military intelligence apparatus, since they consider that these authorities have breached the presidential decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on December 4, 2018.
The concealment of information by military commanders “openly disregards the instructions” of President López Obradorconsidered the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, an organization that supports and advises the parents of the 43 normalistas.
With the provisional suspension granted, the parents of the students hope to obtain the final suspension in the coming days, since they expect that, once the amparo is resolved, the Federal Judiciary will order the Army to hand over the documents. missing.
In fact, the Sedena has not only violated the presidential decree that orders it to help clarify what happened in Iguala, but – by refusing to provide the information it has in this regard, it has also transgressed the right to the truth of the relatives of the missing students.
This opacity on the part of the military commanders could be motivated by the alleged involvement of members of the Army with organized crime groups that operated in Guerrero, the US newspaper The New York Times revealed this weekend.
In an extensive report, the newspaper claims to have had access to thousands of telephone messages intercepted by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in which it realizes that “virtually all branches of government in that area of southern Mexico had been working with the criminal group “Guerreros Unidos” for months.
The newspaper added that “beyond buying specific favors”, this cartel dedicated to drug trafficking “had turned public officials into full-fledged employees.”
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