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February 3, 2015

Report: Mexican Authorities Tortured Local Police to Confess to Role in Students' Disappearance 
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So far the remains of just one of the 43 missing students have been
identified. Last week, the Mexican government said the students were
murdered on the orders of a drug cartel which mistook them for a rival
gang. But the account contradicts published reports that directly tie
government officials to the students' disappearance. A new report
published Sunday by the Mexican magazine Proceso accuses Mexican
authorities of torturing and beating more than two dozen municipal
police officers in order to force them to confess to a role in the
students' disappearance.

 

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