They proposed the “Ayotzinapa Platform,” an act of “solidarity with the victims, families and society.”

Mexico City (apro) – To show “solidarity” with the families of the 43 students who were forced to disappear in Iguala, Guerrero, the Forensic Architecture team of Goldsmiths University of London has captured in a map and time the tragic moments between September 10 and 26 and 27, 2014, as a tool to spread the facts. During the press conference to present “Ayotzinapa Platform: Map of Violence”, Eyan Weizman, Director of Forensic Architecture, explained that his team aims to use “technological tools to support independent investigations in cases of serious human rights violations” involving the state forces responsible for investigating these events. ” Recalling that Forensic Architecture has created other interactive platforms to analyze cases of abuse in Pakistan, Syria, Indonesia, Guatemala and the Gaza Strip, Weizman warns that the goal is to “identify patterns of human rights violations and flawed investigations” through technological tools and a multidisciplinary team composed of architects, filmmakers, journalists and computer program designers, among others. For the heads of the international organizations that began working on the platform last November, “the Ayotzinapa case saw the direct involvement of the state security forces in two types of violence: violence against the students and the destruction of evidence”, so their contribution is an act of “solidarity with the victims, the families and society”. Mercedes Doretti, coordinator of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Group, said that the idea to reconstruct the Ayotzinapa case emerged last year, “given the complexity of the crime scene and the 13 hours of simultaneous operations carried out in the city of Iguala”. (EAAF), an organization represented by the Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), collaborated as experts for the relatives of the 43 disappeared persons. The digital project is also documented in a 16-story painting. meter-long mural, which will be exhibited at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) starting next Saturday, 9. the infamous oral history. ” The aim, Laxness explains, is to give the public and investigators a better understanding of “the complexity and severity of the events that took place that night”, allowing them to “compare the official version with the evidence” based on known material. Theo Resnikoff and Irving Huerta point out that for the preparation of the interactive material it was necessary to systematize the documents in databases of different categories, which they call data mining, achieving a basis of “5,000 precise events and actions involving people, places and times where they took place”. ” The final product is a platform based on satellite images of Iguala and the northern region, with characters located at the time and place of the events, an interactive three-dimensional model of the three main crime scenes, and a video analyzing some of the issues. In addition to the MUAC’s exhibition, curator Rosario Güirales presented the results of the GIEI’s research. Speaking about the exhibition “Forensic Architecture: Towards an Aesthetics of Investigation”, Cuauhtémoc Medina, chief curator of the MUAC, spoke of the contrast between the official narrative and what the London team presented, which is why he believes that what this exercise reveals is “the area of ​​responsibility of the State, which has committed violence by creating an information system that is completely unable to provide any clarity, which favors impunity and the exercise of despotic power. ” After stressing that the exhibition has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Medina insisted that in the Ayotzinapa case “there is also a certain information responsibility to not carry out scientific research, which produces reports of violence and inaction. ” Santiago Aguirre, deputy director of the Proud Center, pointed out that the contribution of the Forensic Architecture digital platform lies in the confrontation with the official discourse, which is also far from the facts reflected in the judicial process. He recalled that since the publication of the “historical truth” by the Office of the Attorney General (PGR) in January 2014, there have been no new changes in the investigation, and that of the 170 people detained in the case, only 70 had a direct link to the case. The disappearance of young people was considered “kidnapping” rather than enforced disappearance. Aguirre considers this work a “cartographic method that everyone can use to show the facts that have been proven so far”. At the end of the speech, Cristina Bautista thanked the members of Forensic Architecture on behalf of the 43 parents of normal school students present for their contribution to the search for truth and justice.