Families of 43 Missing Ayotzinapa Students March to Demand Justice teleSUR
go to original October 28, 2017

Parents of missing Ayotzinapa students mark '1095 days without justice' (Ruptly TV)

Families of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students, who disappeared over three years ago, have marched in the capital to demand justice for their vanished children.

The march stretched from the square of the Angel of the Independence to the Hemiciclo of Juarez and involved numerous human rights activists, several of whom were from the Commission of Human Rights of Mexico City.

According to the official version, students from an Ayotzinapa teacher's training college in Iguala, Guerrero state, which is renowned for political activism, were heading to a demonstration on a bus when they were pulled over on Sept. 26, 2014.

A group of rogue police officers allegedly detained the 43 students and handed them over to a cartel that killed them and burned their bodies, activists claim.

The families of the 43 disappeared students denounced the official police report due to a number of discrepancies. They have called for renewed efforts into the investigation of the case, using the motto: "They were taken alive; we want them alive."

The government claims rogue police officers apprehended the 43 students on the night of Sept. 26, 2014 and in the early hours of Sept. 27, 2014, handing them over to a gang known as Guerreros Unidos. According to the official investigation, the students were then killed and cremated in a garbage dump, incinerating every trace of evidence.

However, several independent investigations have contested the events, insisting it would be impossible to generate sufficient heat to cremate so many bodies without leaving any trace, and allege that federal police and the Attorney General's office all played a role in the disappearances. The Mexican government denies these claims and blames criminal organizations and local police.

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