Press Release, January 9, 2011

CNDH CONFIRMS MAJOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST STUDENTS OF THE NORMAL RURAL SCHOOL RAUL ISIDRO BURGOS, AYOTZINAPA, GUERRERO

  • National Ombudsman [Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, CNDH)] confirms in a preliminary report the veracity of the victims' testimonies and makes evident that federal and state authorities have not acted truthfully.
  • It documents the extrajudicial execution of two students, the shooting of at least four people, the arbitrary arrests of at least 24 and the torture of at least one.
  • The preliminary report shows that the authorities at all government levels have deliberately tried to distort the facts and abet the perpetrators, as the victims had denounced from the beginning.
  • Diffusion of the preliminary report should encourage the delimitation of the remaining criminal, administrative and polical responsabilities.

Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero .- On December 12, 2011, the use of lethal force against students from the normal school Raúl Isidro Burgos demonstrating in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, left two dead students and gas station worker dead and several allegations of torture, arbitrary detention, and the unlawful use of the criminal justice system against the protesters. However, state and federal governments have tried to refute the facts, blaming the students for the violence.

Full Press Release in Spanish here.

 

More information (in Spanish)

CNDH's Preliminary Report on the investigation of serious human rights violations perpetrated during the events of December 12, 2011 in the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero.

Annex to the CNDH's Preliminary Report on the investigation of serious human rights violations perpetrated during the events of December 12, 2011 in the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero.

'Tlachinollan' Human Rights Center of La Montaña, Ayotzinapa 2012:  Ayotzinapa 2012: entre el dolor y la esperanza y Las fuerzas oscuras, El Sur de Acapulco (daily newspaper), Guerrero (Mexico), January 2 and 9, 2012 respectively

PBI's accompaniment to the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center of La Montaña.

 

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