Mexico's former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture, and the obstruction of justice.
The students vanished while traveling by bus through the city of Iguala on their way to a protest in Mexico City. Other than bone fragments recovered from three of them, nothing is known of their fate.
Investigators believe the students were detained by corrupt police officials and then handed over to a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang before killing them.
On Thursday, a truth commission established by current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also accused soldiers of bearing some responsibility for the massacre—at least through negligence, if not directly.
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