Mexico court orders army to hand in missing documents on disappeared students

A Mexican court ordered the army to hand ​over long-awaited documents that could advance the landmark investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in southern Guerrero state at the alleged hands of organized crime ​and local security forces.



The ruling, seen by Reuters on Wednesday, rejected the army's prior assertion that 853 missing pages of information generated by the CFRI, an army intelligence agency, did not exist, and ordered that these must now be handed over.



The government has for over a decade promised to find those responsible for one of the country's worst human rights atrocities, but no one has been convicted, though over 100 have been arrested and face ongoing prosecutions.



The case of the disappearance of the students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College has been marred by missteps and interference. International probes have ruled that they were killed by organized crime members in cahoots with police.