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Mexicans mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala by marching and demanding answers from their government. Nathan Frandino reports.
Clashes erupt during a protest in Mexico City on the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students. Investigators last month branded the atrocity a "state crime" involving the military and other institutions. IMAGES
Bangkok, Jan 19 (EFE/EPA).- A Thai court sentenced a former civil servant to 43 years and six months in prison Tuesday over several crimes of lese majesty, in what is the harshest sentence for criticizing the country’s king to date.Anchan Preelert, 63, who has already spent more than three years in jail awaiting trial, pleaded guilty during the process, which served to reduce the original sentence of 87 years in prison by half, three for each of the 29 crimes for which she was accused, her lawyer, Phawini Chumsri said. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK).SHOT LIST: ANCHAN PREELERT ARRIVES TO HEAR VERDICT IN HER TRIAL OVER CHARGES OF LESE MAJESTE, AT THE CRIMINAL COURT IN BANGKOK, THAILAND. SOUND BITE: FORMER THAI CIVIL SERVANT ANCHAN PREELERT (IN THAI).TRANSLATION: - The person who made the clip faced only one charge. I was too cooperative. I told them all, so things get back at me. (00:42 - 00:57).- I worked as a government official for almost forty years. I was about to be retired in 2016 but I got arrested in 2015. (01:06 - 01:15).
Mexico City, Sep 26 (EFE).- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marked Saturday's sixth anniversary of the abduction of 43 students at Ayotzinapa teachers college by apologizing to their parents on behalf of the government. "I offer you apologies in the name of the state because we are facing a great injustice committed by the Mexican state," he told the families during a ceremony at the National Palace. On Dec. 3, 2018, two days after his inauguration, Lopez Obrador signed a decree for the creation of a truth commission to get to the bottom of the case. Six months later, the federal attorney general's office established a special, independent unit to conduct the probe. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE). SHOT LIST: A MEETING BETWEEN MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND PARENTS OF THE 43 DISAPPEARED STUDENTS FROM AYOTZINAPA AT NATIONAL PALACE, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, LOPEZ OBRADOR, AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF AYOTZINAPA FAMILIES, MARIA MARTINEZ ZEFERINO (IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE). TRANSLATIONS: 1. PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, LOPEZ OBRADOR. - I offer you apologies in the name of the state because we are facing a great injustice committed by the Mexican state. It’s the state affair and that’s why the state has to repair the damage and has to clarify what happened, to give a good account. There shall be justice. Those are our promises. (01:35 - 02:20). - I want to reaffirm the commitment to continue with the goal of clarifying the events, knowing the truth and the we learn the whereabouts of the youths at the same time as punishing those responsible. (02:20 - 03:21). 2.REPRESENTATIVE OF AYOTZINAPA FAMILIES, MARIA MARTINEZ ZEFERINO. - It pleases us to see that you are more humane than those who came before you, but we ask you to press a little harder. We would have like to come here today with something more, because it's already six years and we don't have anything. (03:21 - 03:38). - Police took them (the 43 students) and military personnel participated.There were photos and videos. (03:40 - 03:45). - Please look for them, sir. They have our children out there somewhere. I will not stop demanding, and I will not stop shouting that we want them back alive because that was how they were taken. (03:47 - 03:55).
Mexico City, Sep 26 (EFE).- Hundreds of protesters on Saturday joined the families of 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, who were forcibly disappeared in 2014, in a demonstration in the heart of Mexico City to demand justice on the sixth anniversary of the tragedy.The slogan-chanting demonstrators, wearing masks to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic, marched from the iconic Angel of Independence monument to the central Zocalo square, which houses the National Palace, the seat of the government. (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE VELA).SHOT LIST: PROTESTERS GATHER TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MISSING STUDENTS OF AYOTZINAPA, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
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