12/12/2014
MEXICO CITY – The account offered by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office of how killers burned the bodies of 43 students abducted Sept. 26 in the southern state of Guerrero “has no support in facts or in physical, chemical or natural phenomena,” a group of scientists said Thursday.
Jorge Antonio Montemayor, a research physicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told a press conference that the evidence provided by the AG’s office indicates the bodies were incinerated in a modern crematorium, not the rural dump authorities say was the site of the massacre.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced on Nov. 7 that the students – including some still alive – were set ablaze at a dump outside the town of Cocula.
The fire raged for some 14 hours, Murillo Karam said, citing statements from three suspects in custody.
But if the killers used wood for the fire, they would have needed some 33 tons of logs, implying premeditation and raising the question of where they would have bought that quantity of wood, Montemayor said Thursday.
The Cocula dump is also not big enough to accommodate a wood-fueled blaze capable of incinerating 43 bodies, the scientist said.
As for the theory that the killers used a combination of wood and tires for the fire, the resulting blaze would have produced a column of smoke visible for kilometers, Montemayor said.
That kind of blaze would also have left a residue of melted rubber and the steel belts from the tires, he said.
Following the fire at the dump, according to the official account, the students’ bones were stuffed into garbage bags and tossed into a nearby river.
The AG’s office said Sunday that DNA from one of the bones recovered from the river was a match with family members of one of the missing students.
Yet a team of Argentine specialists taking part in the analysis of the remains pointed out that neither they nor the scientists at Austria’s Innsbruck University who made the identification have direct knowledge of where and how the bones were recovered.
Murillo Karam has a “very serious problem,” Montemayor said.
“Given that they weren’t burned in Cocula, it remains to be learned who burned them, where they were burned and who it was that provided the information that those remains were in the river,” the physicist said.
The scientists questioning authorities version of events plan to present their analysis to Mexico’s independent National Human Rights Commission.
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MEXICO CITY – The account offered by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office of how killers burned the bodies of 43 students abducted Sept. 26 in the southern state of Guerrero “has no support in facts or in physical, chemical or natural phenomena,” a group of scientists said Thursday.Jorge Antonio Montemayor, a research physicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told a press conference that the evidence provided by the AG’s office indicates the bodies were incinerated in a modern crematorium, not the rural dump authorities say was the site of the massacre.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced on Nov. 7 that the students – including some still alive – were set ablaze at a dump outside the town of Cocula.
The fire raged for some 14 hours, Murillo Karam said, citing statements from three suspects in custody.
But if the killers used wood for the fire, they would have needed some 33 tons of logs, implying premeditation and raising the question of where they would have bought that quantity of wood, Montemayor said Thursday.
The Cocula dump is also not big enough to accommodate a wood-fueled blaze capable of incinerating 43 bodies, the scientist said.
As for the theory that the killers used a combination of wood and tires for the fire, the resulting blaze would have produced a column of smoke visible for kilometers, Montemayor said.
That kind of blaze would also have left a residue of melted rubber and the steel belts from the tires, he said.
Following the fire at the dump, according to the official account, the students’ bones were stuffed into garbage bags and tossed into a nearby river.
The AG’s office said Sunday that DNA from one of the bones recovered from the river was a match with family members of one of the missing students.
Yet a team of Argentine specialists taking part in the analysis of the remains pointed out that neither they nor the scientists at Austria’s Innsbruck University who made the identification have direct knowledge of where and how the bones were recovered.
Murillo Karam has a “very serious problem,” Montemayor said.
“Given that they weren’t burned in Cocula, it remains to be learned who burned them, where they were burned and who it was that provided the information that those remains were in the river,” the physicist said.
The scientists questioning authorities version of events plan to present their analysis to Mexico’s independent National Human Rights Commission.
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