(27 Sep 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 26 September 2024
1. Various of mother reading the name of the 43 missing students
2. A list with the name of the 43 missing students
3. Mothers chanting the name of the 43 missing students
4. A photo of one of the missing students
5. Various of rural teacher’s colleges’ students chanting
6. University students chanting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jacobo (no surname given), university student:
"It has been ten years without truth, without justice, the comrades are still missing, the government has not been able to give an answer that meets the demands of the families nor the demands of the population. We demand to know the truth, it has not been achieved, and that is why we are here in the rain, resisting, for our 43 disappeared comrades from Ayotzinapa."
8. Various of Cristina Bautista, mother of Benjamin Ascencio Bautista, chanting the names of the 43 students
9. Mothers of the 43 missing students marching under the rain
10. Women students of a rural teacher’s college marching
11. Wide of students marching
STORYLINE:
Relatives of students abducted ten years ago counted out the number of the missing youths as they marched through Mexico City Thursday to demand answers to one of Mexico’s most infamous human rights cases.
With President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term ending this year, family members face the prospect of a tenth year of not knowing what happened to their loved ones.
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 small pieces of bones have been identified as belong to three students.
After an initial coverup, 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."
Outgoing President Andrés Manuel 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.
In 2022, when more and more evidence pointed toward the military’s involvement in the attack and cover-up the administration’s tone changed.
The president had ordered the military to open its archives to investigators. That didn’t happen. Instead, López Obrador shifted more power and responsibility to the military than any president in recent history.
The Ayotzinapa atrocity has taken on symbolic significance for a country with more than 110,000 missing people.
AP Video shot by Fernanda Pesce
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