Ayotzinapa Families March Marking 15 Months Since Disapperance of 43 Students
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December 27, 2015
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Relatives of 43 missing students and their supporters in Mexico keep the pressure on the government to find out what happened to their loved ones. Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim reports from Mexico City. (Al Jazeera English)

Relatives of the missing students have not lost hope and they continue to demand that the Enrique Peña Nieto government return their loved ones.

Hundreds of people joined the parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, who organized a peaceful demonstration in Mexico City on Saturday to mark the 15th month since their children were forcibly disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero.

Demonstrators accompanied the students’ relatives and marched to the Guadalupe Basilica, where they attended a service in honor of the students who were abducted in the city of Iguala, on the night of Sept. 26, 2014.

Meliton Ortega, the representative of the Ayotzinapa teachers training college, told the press that the relatives of the missing students have not lost hope that they’re still alive, and they demanded that the government of Enrique Peña Nieto secure the safe return of their beloved ones.

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