6 of 43 Missing Mexican Students Given to Army Commander Who Ordered Them Killed: Official

6 of 43 Missing Mexican Students Given to Army Commander Who Ordered Them Killed: Official
Friends and relatives seeking justice for the missing 43 Ayotzinapa students gather round a monument dedicated to the students during a demonstration in Mexico City on Aug. 26, 2022. Marco Ugarte/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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MEXICO CITY—Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.

Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.