(26 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Iguala, Mexico – 27 September 2014
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Crime scene cordoned off by police tape
2. Crime scene, motorbike
3. Van’s shattered windows
4. Police vehicles on scene
5. Various of van’s shattered windows
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Iguala, Mexico – 7 September 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Martínez, survivor of the attack: ++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 4, 5, 7++
"You could hear the bullets hitting the wall and the light post. Some hit the windshield of one of the buses."
7. Cross in memory of student who died in 2014 attack
8. Ulises Martínez, student who survived the attack, walks at site where two former classmates were shot dead
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Martínez, survivor of the attack: ++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 8++
"One lady told us: ‘Boys, get into the hospital, get in there. They are going to kill you.’"
10. Sign of hospital where students took refuge, then called "Hospital Cristina"
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Martínez, survivor of the attack: ++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 10-12++
"At that moment, I said: ‘Let’s go with them to the barracks, we will be safer in the military base.’ I was so naïve that I said: ‘Let the army take us, the army must take care of us.’"
12. Various aerials of Iguala army base
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Martínez, survivor of the attack: ++ ENDS ON SHOT 14 ++
"’So, is it your companions that are dead over there?’ they said. And when they said ‘dead’ we felt a shiver, a very ugly feeling. ‘Yes,’ they said. ‘There are two bodies lying there, getting wet (in the rain). Those are your companions and that’s how you’re going to end up.’"
14. Close of plaque with names of killed students
15. Martínez standing next to memorial
16. Various of Iguala bus station
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Martínez, survivor of the attack: ++ ENDS ON SHOTS 18-19 ++
"It could have been me, I could have been one of the dead. I could have been the one to be abducted. I could have been the one whose face was ripped off before dawn. Just like any of us who were here."
18. Close of wreath at memorial to killed students
19. Martínez by memorial
STORYLINE:
Ulises Martínez, a 30-year-old teacher, is still uncomfortable in the city of Iguala in southern Mexico, even though it’s been 10 years since 43 of his fellow students from a rural teachers college were abducted there.
On September 26, 2014, Martínez was in his third year at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, a school known for its radical social justice activism, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Iguala in the state of Guerrero.
That night, a hundred students had commandeered five buses that they planned to drive to Mexico City to attend the commemoration of the massacre of nearly 300 people by government forces during a protest in 1968.
But the students were attacked and almost half of them were detained at different points and then disappeared.
There were also six dead and more than 40 wounded.
The government determined that the students were attacked by security forces linked to a local drug cartel, but many questions about what happened to them remain.
Martínez recalls that it was around 9:30 p.m. when he and other students got word that their classmates had problems in Iguala, and decided to head for the city in two vans.
At 11 p.m., they found three buses, all shot up, in downtown Iguala.
Other students were guarding the site, worried that someone would try to remove the buses or pick up the bullet casings.
They would later learn that two students had been killed at the scene.
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