- Title: Families demand justice on 31-month anniversary of feared student massacre
- Date: 27th April 2017
- Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (APRIL 26, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTEST MARCH BEHIND BIG 43 LETTERS TO REPRESENT MISSING STUDENTS PROTESTER HOLDING UP POSTER DENOUNCING INSECURITY, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY FAMILY MEMBERS OF MISSING STUDENTS WITH POSTERS OF PHOTOS OF LOVED ONES HUNG AROUND THEIR NECKS SPEAKER READING OUT NAME OF MISSING STUDENT VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING AFTER HEARING NAMES OF MISSING STUDENTS SPEAKERS ON STAGE AT PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HILDA HERNANDEZ, MOTHER OF MISSING STUDENT CESAR MANUEL GONZALEZ HERNANDEZ, SAYING: "It has been (nearly) two years and a half. We have been tolerant through dialogue and it appears that they (authorities) don't care to return our children." POSTERS WITH PHOTOS OF MISSING STUDENTS GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED AROUND STAGE TO LISTEN TO SPEAKERS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) EPEFANIO ALVAREZ, FATHER OF MISSING STUDENT JORGE ALVAREZ NAVA, SAYING: "Stop already, we will not accept any more lies. Fathers and mothers are asking, 'When will we have a clear response, the truth, something that is not a lie, something that is not dirty'?" PROTESTERS GATHERED AROUND RALLY STAGE CHANTING "THE SEARCH CONTINUES" GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH REVOLUTION MONUMENT IN THE BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH LARGE UNION BANNER IN THE BACKGROUND DENOUNCING GOVERNMENT REFORMS
- Embargoed: 11th May 2017 03:49
- Keywords: students Ayotzinapa Mexico Iguala anniversary protest investigation
- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA0016E6AIWZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Relatives and supporters of 43 missing students marched in downtown Mexico City on Wednesday (April 26) on the 31-month anniversary of the feared student massacre to demand justice for their loved ones.
Activists and family members have been highly critical of the government's handling of the case.
More than two years after the disappearance of teaching students and despite the fact that dozens of arrests have been made, the fate of the youngsters captured on September 26, 2014 by police in the southern city of Iguala and then supposedly turned over to a group of organised crime, is still unknown.
Earlier this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) reported that Mexico's investigations into the disappearance of the 43 missing students has stalled.
The Attorney General's Office (PGR) has said it has initiated new searches and followed the recommendations of a group of international experts that followed the case up to April last year, but still has no relevant results.
This experts have rejected the initial version of the prosecution that the youths were killed and burned in a rubbish dump in the town of Cocula, neighbouring Iguala. They accuse the original prosecutor of manipulating evidence.
That prosecutor has resigned and the current prosecutor says that different hypotheses are being investigated.
However, the victim's parents and the lawyers representing them have criticised the government because they believe that the investigations are progressing slowly and that it has not delved into the role that the Army could have had in the disappearance of the youngsters, a case that shook up the government led by Enrique Pena Nieto.
Some parents still believe that their missing children are still alive and are being held in clandestine detention centres. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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