Ayotzinapa Platform - The Enforced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Students

The Ayotzinapa Platform was commissioned by the EAAF and by the Centro Agustín Pro (legal representatives of families of victims of this investigation), to Forensic Architecture, a London-based investigative agency. The platform reconstructs the night from September 26 to 27, 2014 in the city of Iguala, where 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos normal school in Ayotzinapa (Mexico) disappeared, 6 people were killed and more than 30 people were shot by security forces personnel and possible members of criminal organizations. The platform is a forensic tool for investigators, which serves to strengthen the capacity of civil society to investigate what happened and the participation of the Mexican state in a crime with high political and social impact. Working together with the families of the disappeared and NGOs in Mexico, and with the journalist John Gibler - who investigated in detail what happened that night - Forensic Architecture developed an interactive cartographic to explore that narrative, its conflicts and inconsistencies. To do so, thousands of testimonies, interviews, videos and telephone records of reports were examined, included in the investigation by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at the request of Mexican NGOs.