A new report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Sunday about the 43 Mexican students who disappeared last year is poised to put even more pressure on Mexico's government, as the results of the investigation revealed deep flaws in the government's handling of the case. The report further rejects the government's claim that the 43 students were incinerated in a garbage dump, according to The Daily Mail.
The case of the missing 43 students has sparked massive backlash from the international community, after the students - many of whom were only in their first year of college - disappeared from the city of Iguala in southwest Mexico on Sept. 26, 2014.
The government's hypothesis states that the students were abducted by a group of corrupt local police by mistake, who were working with a local drug gang, the "Guerreros Unidos" (United Warriors). According to the findings of the government, the police then handed the 43 students over to the gang, who in turn took them to a local garbage dump where they were immolated, reports MSN News.
The IACHR report, whose authors include prominent investigators from Chile, Colombia, Guatamela and Spain, however, states that the government's conclusion was full of errors.
The team from the IACHR also had forensic experts examine the garbage dump where the alleged incineration of the students took place.
"There is no evidence that supports the hypothesis based on testimony that 43 bodies were cremated in the municipal dump of Cocula on Sept. 27, 2014," the report said, emphasizing that the alleged gang who undertook the burning did not have the resources to commit such an elaborate execution, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The lone bone fragment that was positively identified from the garbage dump as belonging to one of the 43 students also indicates that it was not burned at a high temperature, which is contrary to the government's claims.
The findings of the report has put even more pressure on President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose approval ratings have taken a huge tumble after the incident. In light of the new findings, Mexican officials have already pledged to review the findings of the government's initial investigation.
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