(27 Aug 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 26 August 2024
1. Various of relatives of the 43 missing students marching and holding banners
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yeye, protester:
"In a month it will be 10 years since the forced disappearance of the "normalistas" (Rural Teachers’ College) students and I am here because I have been supporting the struggle for several years."
3. Various of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College chanting and marching
4. Various of march
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Betty Vázquez, protester:
"Ten years without the fathers and mothers of the 43 (students) knowing the whereabouts of their children. And as a society we are obliged to support them, to be with them and I am here, like many other relatives, supporting and strengthening the fight."
6. Various of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College chanting and marching
7. Various of relatives of the 43 missing students marching
STORYLINE:
Relatives of students abducted almost ten years ago marched through Mexico City Monday to demand answers to one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases.
In 2014, a group of students were attacked by municipal police in the southern city of Iguala, Guerrero, who handed them over to a local drug gang that apparently killed them and burned their bodies.
Since the Sept. 26 attack, only three of their remains have been identified.
After an initial cover-up, a government truth commission concluded that local, state and federal authorities colluded with the gang to murder the students in what it called a "state crime."
The march comes on the same day a Mexican news outlet published comments from a former high-ranking Mexican official who claimed the ‘official-truth’ version of events of how the students were killed was created in meetings chaired by then-President Enrique Peña Nieto.
President López Obrador had pledged to solve the case and recent years have seen a painstakingly slow release of documents from the abduction, as well as a slew of arrests.
But activists and human rights organizations say the government has not done enough to atone for the murders, investigate exactly what happened, and punish the culprits.
Last year, a panel of outside experts who spent nearly a decade trying to solve the case decided to leave Mexico, saying that the military had been persistently putting obstacles in their way.
Their last report raised questions about Mexico’s military’s role in the disappearance.
However, a new report just released by the government ruled out the army’s involvement.
The Ayotzinapa atrocity has taken on symbolic significance for a country with more than 110,000 missing people.
AP video by Martín Silva
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