The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, or EAAF, that is collaborating with the Mexican Government in the Ayotzinapa investigations, said Tuesday it identified three more bodies found in clandestine graves in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, but they are not the remains of any of the 43 students who disappeared in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26.
The EAAF, which participates in the investigation for the request of the relatives, said in a statement that these remains, found in the area of Pueblo Viejo, belong to “three people missing in Iguala in recent months.”
The remains found in the Pueblo Viejo area are those of "three people who disappeared in Iguala in recent months," the EAAF, which is assisting with the investigation of the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Normal School students at the request of the families of the missing, said in a statement.
"The families of the three people identified have already been informed by the EAAF and its legal representative, the Jose Maria Morelos Regional Human Rights Center," the specialists said.
The examination of the remains and evidence found in Pueblo Viejo, located in the La Parota area, and in the San Juan River and the dump in Cocula, a city near Iguala, is continuing, the EAAF said.
The EAAF said Nov. 11 that DNA tests performed on 24 of the 30 bodies found in Pueblo Viejo confirmed that the remains were not those of the missing education students.
The specialists are still trying to identify three of the bodies found in Pueblo Viejo and nine other bodies found in La Parota and the Cerro de Lomas de Zapatero in Iguala.
The remains found near the river and in the dump, where the students were presumably murdered and burned, were turned over to the School of Medicine of the University of Innsbruck in Austria between Nov. 13 and Nov. 17, the EAAF said.
An EAAF specialist, Foreign Relations Secretariat personnel and Attorney General's Office employees turned the remains over to the Austrian university.
"The laboratory was suggested by the EAAF to the AG's office since it is one of the best-equipped and most experienced in the world in handling extremely deteriorated remains," the EAAF said.
A confidentiality agreement was signed Nov. 17 covering findings in the case and giving the Argentine specialists access to results obtained by the AG's office, the EAAF said.
"The laboratory in Innsbruck is now studying the samples," but due to "the difficulty of the job, timeframes cannot be provided at this time on when results will be available," the EAAF said.
The 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa Normal School, a teacher's college, were detained by police on the night of Sept. 26 and handed over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which killed them and burned the bodies to eliminate all traces of the victims, Mexican officials say, citing statements by suspects in the case.
The parents of the missing young people, however, say they will not accept the official explanation without solid proof.
Thursday 27 November 2014
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