{"id":20577,"date":"2016-02-05T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?p=20577"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:51:07","slug":"ngos-denounce-defamation-campaign-against-the-giei-investigating-the-enforced-disappearance-of-the-43-students-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/2016\/02\/05\/ngos-denounce-defamation-campaign-against-the-giei-investigating-the-enforced-disappearance-of-the-43-students-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs Denounce Defamation Campaign against the GIEI Investigating the Enforced Disappearance of the 43 Students in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joint Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 5, 2016<\/p>\n

Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

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There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the legal representatives of the families of the students, these experts are providing crucial technical assistance in the investigation of the 43 forcibly disappeared students from Ayotzinapa.<\/p>\n

As international human rights organizations, we\u00a0reiterate<\/a>\u00a0our full support for the GIEI and its preliminary\u00a0findings and recommendations<\/a>. We stand with the five independent experts of the GIEI\u2014Carlos Mart\u00edn Beristain, Angela Buitrago, Francisco Cox Vial, Claudia Paz y Paz, and Alejandro Valencia Villa\u2014all of whom are\u00a0internationally recognized<\/a>\u00a0for their exemplary work in the areas of criminal investigations, human rights, and attention to victims.<\/p>\n

The defamation campaign shows that the GIEI is getting closer to finding the truth about what happened to the students. One of the most important contributions of the GIEI\u2019s work on the case has been to\u00a0scientifically disprove<\/a>\u00a0the Mexican government\u2019s original theory that the students\u2019 remains were burned in a trash dump in Cocula and, in its place, propose new lines of investigation.<\/p>\n

In order for this work to move forward, the Mexican government must move beyond the trash dump theory and pursue the new lines of investigation proposed by the GIEI, including investigating the use of buses in Iguala to traffic drugs to the United States as a possible motive for the attacks. The Mexican government should also find a solution to allow the GIEI to be present during the Mexican authorities\u2019 interviews with the Mexican soldiers in Iguala, many of whom were present during the attacks on the students.<\/p>\n

We are concerned about the silence from the Mexican government in the face of the ongoing defamation attacks in the media. We call on the Mexican government to publicly acknowledge the important work of the GIEI and expend maximum effort to determine the whereabouts of the students. With only three months remaining in the GIEI\u2019s mandate, timing is crucial. The GIEI needs to have the full support of the Mexican government so that it can pursue, together with the team at the Attorney General\u2019s Office, the proposed lines of investigation and contribute essential information regarding what happened to the 43 forcibly disappeared students.<\/p>\n

The Mexican government has an important opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights with this case; the failure to do so would show, yet again, that in Mexico impunity prevails for grave human rights violations.<\/p>\n

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Amnesty International<\/strong><\/p>\n

Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Center for Legal\u00a0and\u00a0Social Studies\u00a0(CELS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Latin America Working Group (LAWGEF)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Society Justice Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joint Statement February 5, 2016 Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"country":[884,887],"issue":[859],"program":[873],"resource":[896],"class_list":["post-20577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","country-america-del-norte","country-mexico","issue-transitional-justice","program-transitional-justice-and-fight-against-impunity","resource-press-releases"],"acf":{"boton_1":"","url_boton_1\u00ba":"","boton_2":"","url_boton_2":"","boton_3":"","url_boton_3":"","boton_4":"","url_boton_4":"","boton_5":"","url_boton_5":"","boton_6":"","url_boton_6":"","boton_7":"","url_boton_7":"","boton_8":"","url_boton_8":"","boton_9":"","url_boton_9":"","boton_10":"","url_boton_10":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20579,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions\/20579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"resource","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource?post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}