Ruling PRI Rejects Commemoration of Day Against Forced Disappearances teleSUR
go to original September 17, 2015

Interviews from Mexico – Familes of Disappeared Search for Justice (teleSUR English)

Lawmakers from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico have rejected declaring September 26 as the “Day of Condemnation of Forced Disappearances” during a debate in the House of Representatives.

September 26 marks the one-year anniversary of the occasion when 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers training college were captured by state security forces and alleged disappeared by an organized crime group.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, and their allies instead are proposing the date be commemorated as the “Day of the Victims of Ayotzinapa.” The PRI and its allies hold a majority in the Mexican Congress, therefore their position will determine what the commemoration will eventually be called.

The party of President Enrique Peña Nieto has been the subject of intense criticism over its handling of the missing 43 students and the issue of forced disappearances in general. Their reluctance to embrace the term “forced disappearances” likely stems from a vested interest in not drawing further attention to the matter.

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Related: Families of Disappeared Deliver Proposal for Law on Forced Disappearance to Mexico Government (Aristegui Noticias)

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