Mexico's Human Rights Commission demands justice for Ayotzinapa students

The disappearance of 43 students is a “national disgrace”, said Luis Raúl González Pérez , president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) , and added that they expect concrete answers from the incoming government.

Upon his arrival at the Memory and Tolerance Museum to accompany the families of the missing students in their meeting with the President-elect , the Ombudsperson said that four years after the events, it's essential that the truth is known.

“We expect concrete answers from the incoming government in regards to the commitments they are making to learn the truth about the barbaric acts that took place four years ago”, he said.

He emphasized that “what happened and the fact that the location of the 43 students is unknown are national disgraces, all they were doing was studying”.

González Pérez

said that the CNDH is willing to collaborate in order to learn the truth and emphasized that the expectations generated by the new government are encouraging.

The Ombudsperson said that the disappearance of the students is a serious human rights violation and that the CNDH has pointed at the flaws in the investigation.

“There's no doubt that this is an enforced disappearance , we have no doubt about it, we have said it since the beginning, I have no doubt these are serious violations, what happened there was barbaric ”, he said.

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