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Wednesday 10 February
2nd outside report says Mexico students not burned at dump
Miguel Nieves, center right, a member of an Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team speaks, dur- ments have been linked by Iguala on Sept. 26, 2014,
ing a news conference with member of his team and relatives of the missing 43 students in Mexico DNA testing — in one case and allegedly handed
City, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2016. positively, and in another over to local members of
case, tentatively — to two a drug gang for slaughter.
(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) of the missing students. They remain missing.
But because the forensics In September, experts from
E. CASTILLO as government investiga- there, there’s no evidence team was not present when the Inter American Com-
Associated Press tors initially claimed. they belong to the missing a bag containing the frag- mission of Human Rights
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A The report released Tues- students. ments was recovered, they said a separate indepen-
group of Argentine forensic day by the Argentine Fo- The government has said cannot vouch that those dent forensic investigation
experts says it has deter- rensic Anthropology Team the students were killed by fragments came from established that they could
mined there’s no biologi- signaled that the dump in a drug gang, their remains the dump. The team also not have been burned at
cal or physical evidence to Cocula, Guerrero state, incinerated, and their said that largely undam- the dump.
conclude that 43 students was the site of multiple fires charred bone fragments aged plants found at the The students’ disappear-
who disappeared in south- at various times, but while gathered up and tossed supposed site of the pyre ance attracted local and
ern Mexico in 2014 were in- the remains of at least 19 in bags in a nearby river. would have been killed or international opprobrium
cinerated at a trash dump people were found near Some of those bone frag- been severely damaged and has been a stain on
by a fire of such intensity. the government of Presi-
It is the second indepen- dent Enrique Pena Nieto.
dent report to reject the After the commission’s re-
Mexican government’s port, the government an-
main finding from a little nounced it would launch
over a year ago about another forensic analysis
what happened to the stu- of what happened at the
dents, who were taken by dump, though that has not
police in the nearby city of yet taken place.q
UN:
Number of Haitians needing food aid spikes
DAVID McFADDEN The World Food Program’s six months amid a long
Associated Press country director, Wendy drought that has been
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Bigham, called the situ- worsened by the arrival of
— Drought-stricken Haiti is ation alarming. A grow- a strong El Nino weather
grappling with its most se- ing number of families will pattern.
rious food crisis in 15 years, need to sell off possessions In 2008, violent food riots by
the head of the U.N. World to feed themselves or have Haitians toppled a prime
Food Program’s country of- to significantly reduce the minister. But the World Bank
fice said Tuesday. daily amounts they eat, she noted last year that ex-
Roughly 1.5 million Haitians said. treme poverty fell in Haiti
are considered severely In a phone interview, Big- over the last decade, es-
insecure when it comes to ham described it as “the pecially in urban areas.
food, more than double most serious food crisis fac- The World Food Program,
the figure of those facing ing Haiti since 2001,” when which relies on contribu-
malnutrition from a govern- methodical data collection tions and tries to mobilize
ment assessment in Sep- began to assess food secu- assistance for countries
tember. Hard-hit areas are rity in the Western Hemi- around the globe, intends
in Haiti’s northwest, south- sphere’s poorest country. to ramp up its food assis-
east and some areas on The number of Haitians tance for 1 million Haitians
the border with the Domini- in need of urgent food by distributing cash and, to
can Republic. aid spiked over the last a lesser extent, rations.q
