In a brief statement on Tuesday, Mexico’s Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said that the independent team investigating the case of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students will not be able to interview military officials stationed in and around Iguala, Guerrero, where the students were forcibly disappeared on September 26. The team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in its report that an interview with the military is “key,” since their role in the events has not been completely clarified. Osorio Chong said that the Mexico Attorney General’s investigation and findings have been transparent and clear, verifying that the students were kidnapped by an organized crime group, cremated, and their remains dispersed in a river. The independent team, however, has said that the official investigation is “fragmented,” and plagued with a “certain degree of irregularities.” The parents of the disappeared students continue to demand entrance into military installations as part of a complete investigation of the role of the military in the September events. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City for teleSUR.
