Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday.

Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one of Mexico’s worst human rights scandals, and it came with little fanfare as he made a lengthy defense of the commission’s report released a week earlier.

Hundreds marched in the rain on Friday to demand justice for the 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 while on a field trip.

The recent arrest of former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo, who oversaw the botched inquiry into the kidnapping and disappearance of the students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College.

The disappearances and presumed deaths have been called a “state crime” by Mexico’s top human rights investigator.International experts have said Murillo’s investigation, which concluded the students had been mistakenly killed by a local drug gang, was riddled with missteps and abuses, including the torture of witnesses.

Last week, a judge released nearly 100 arrest warrants related to the case.

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