There is independent investigation still pending for the incident where BDF soldiers shot and killed the 13 year-old Guatemalan boy, Julio Alvarado Ruano inside the Chiquibul. The BDF maintain that they had come under hostile fire under the cover of darkness, and they were simply defending themselves.
Well, the Mexican Embassy reports that they have deployed an expert to make a part of the team of investigators. A press release from the Mexican Embassy in Belize says that the government of Belize and Guatemala, the Secretary General of the OAS deployed a team of experts. This independent commission will consist of specialists in the area of criminal investigation, criminal law, forensics, all of whom have knowledge of the mandate of the OAS, and are bilingual. They will be investigating for approximately 2 weeks, or so. Belize has also requested that investigations be done into other cases where Belizean security officers, were killed or injured.
The Mexican Embassy's statement says that dsue to the lack of financial resources and personnel, Secretary General Luis Almagro sent invitations on May 20 to Brazil, Chile, the United States, and Mexico, so that within their national budgets, they would nominate experts to develop the requested investigation. Mexico has nominated their expert, Doctora Patricia Rosa Linda Trujillo Mariel. She comes highly qualified, and she is expected to carry out site visits; including the area where the incident happened; interviewing witnesses; verifying topics of fact and law, receiving reports from both Belize and Guatemala that could be helpful to the independent commission's investigation; and check processes and protocols to obtain evidence and proof. That includes expertise and forensic reports. Our sources tell us that one major revelation which culd emerge from the investigation is that the fatal shot may have been fired from a shotgun, not from an M-16 rifle carried by the BDF.
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