43 Mexican students vanished. Their bodies were never found.
For a summary and update of the incredible case, click on this CNN article. It notes that over 40 arrest warrants were recently issued of Mexican authorities, mostly military men.
The article does not note, however, something equally important for justice to be truly, finally rendered:
Why?
Why were the students murdered?
We think we have found a possible solution to the mystery. Also, how to significantly reduce the number of disappeared people in the world so that it won´t happen again.
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A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL BANK OF DNA SAMPLES OF MISSING PERSONS
Mexico recently surpassed 100,000 disappeared persons, 97% of them after 2006.
For a review of the international situation, see the "Global Report on Missing Persons: 2021-2022" from the International Commission on Missing Persons.
The best-known case of disappeared people continues to be the 43 Mexican students.
Three facts are compelling.
(i) Look at the faces of the 43 students. They were in their teens/twenties.
(ii) The modus operandi of Mexican criminals in the state of Guerrero is to bury the bodies of their victims in mass graves. Narcotraffickers leave them by the side of highways or hanging from bridges, in full view of everyone. Clearly, the killers want to send a message.
(iii) With two exceptions, the bodies of the 43 were completely destroyed. This event is not consistent with the aforementioned modus operandi.
Why then did the 43 corpses vanish?
Answer. Because they would have revealed something.
Normally, nature will do its work and quickly decompose cadavers. In the case of the students, however, the criminals did not want to leave anything to chance. Nature sometimes does not co-operate, which can lead to discovery and arrest.
Young men + no cadavers = ?
Our hypothesis: The 43 students were victims of organ trafficking.
I do not know if the hypothesis is correct. I do know there is a scientific way to verify or refute it.
This hypothesis goes directly against The Official Explanation, viz., most disappeared persons – in Mexico, the majority – are due to wars among drug traffickers.
Let´s go straight to the clincher that the prevailing explanations of the mass disappearance, e.g. the students were killed because of their leftist political beliefs or because they threatened to disrupt a speech by the mayor´s wife or because they were mistaken for a rival drug gang, are complete nonsense. If any of them were true, there would have been no need to destroy all 43 corpses. The killers would have conducted business as usual.
Unlike the prevailing explanations, our hypothesis fits the facts. It is also common sense – logical, given the known facts.
For an introduction to the high monetary value of human organs, see the report “Millman Research Report: 2020 organ and tissue transplants: Cost estimates and discussion.”
The international organ trade is as profitable as it is unknown. At $1.6 million for a heart, the money-making potential approaches that of drugs. Maybe more. When their drug sales peaked/ran into trouble in 2014, one Mexican drug cartel, the Knights Templar, kidnapped children and removed their organs. Given that ghastly reality, our hypothesis is no conspiracy theory.
Obviously, the causes of the disappearance of people are multiple. What is surprising when reviewing the literature is that organ trafficking is rarely mentioned among them.
Our proposal:
1. The United Nations should create a bank of DNA samples from disappeared persons/their family members around the world.
2. The UN should create a treaty establishing that
(i) All human organs offered for sale must undergo a DNA test.
(ii) The results would be compared to the samples in the international DNA bank of missing persons.
Organ trafficking would be revolutionized.
The hideously high number of disappeared people would drop significantly.
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