Students and Families Suspect Mexican Government is Hiding the Truth Television del Sur | |
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Priest Alejandro Solalinde says that his sources claim that the missing students were burned alive. (Jesús Quintanar/Milenio)
The classmates and family members of the 43 disappeared students signaled that they have lost faith in the government and its ability to find the students alive. At a meeting in Ayotzinapa on Sunday, a spokesperson for the student body stated “The government already knows where they are, if they are alive or dead, but they don't know how to break the news.” Similarly after a meeting Monday with the federal Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, the family members expressed that “They do not believe the authorities.”
Alejandro Solalinde, a renown human rights defender and priest in Mexico, declared that his sources indicate that the students were burnt alive after being captured. In an interview with Mexican newspaper El Universal, Solalinde stated “Hopefully they will prove that I am a liar, that the 43 students are alive, but I know from a reliable source that this is not the case.” He also indicated that it would only be a matter of time before more people would come forward with similar information but that they are currenly staying quiet due to fear of reprisal.
Solalinde went to the offices of the federal Attorney General on Monday to give a statement regarding his claims but was turned away because the official in charge of Investigation of Organized Crime, Rodrigo Archundia, was not in his office at the time.
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Activists in southern Mexico have been occupying tollbooths to protest the disappearance of 43 college students. In this video, a student from the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero explains why students took over a tollbooth on the highway between Mexico City and Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero. (Fusion)
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