Mexico City Mexico City, 19 August : 8 years after 43 schoolchildren were reported missing in Mexico’s Guerrero state the authorities have declared all of them dead. All signs point towards the existence of this “sad reality” DPA news agency reported Alejandro Encinas, secretary of state for Human Rights in the Ministry of Interior as declaring in an interview with journalists on Thursday.
The information was passed on to the parents of the students in the “hard and painful conference” which president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was present, Encinas told reporters.
As of now until now, the Mexican government had said they would continue to hunt for the missing students based on the assumption that they were still alive.
The only results so far are bones fragments from three of them.
On the 26th of September 2014, 43 young men attending a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa disappeared in Iguala, the city of Iguala as they traveled on buses that they had stolen.
They were chased by corrupt police officers, and were allegedly transferred to the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos for reasons that aren’t clear.
An earlier investigation suggested that their bodies were burned in a garbage dump, but this version of the events was later discredited.
Encinas said that the version of events that the government presented as of the time was incorrect and said that the disappearance of the students was as a state crime with different degrees of state institutions at play.
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