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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, Jul 26 (EFE) .- The parents of 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teacher-training college demanded Sunday that Mexican authorities speed up the investigation and arrest those responsible for the disappearance of their children in June 2014.A commission of parents, accompanied by students from Ayotzinapa, a school in the southern state of Guerrero, took their demands to the monument for the 43 children on the central Paseo de la Reforma avenue where they staged a rally just two months before the sixth anniversary of the disappearance of their children.(Camera: ULISES ANDRADE)FOOTAGE SHOWS PARENTS OF THE AYOTZINAPA STUDENTS WHO DISAPPEARED PROTESTING IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUNDBITES: MELITÓN ORTEGA SPOKESMAN FOR PARENTS(00:03:01-00:03:33) "We want to send a message to the Judiciary and the Attorney General of the Republic to accelerate the arrest of Tomás Zerón de Lucio and other officials that have to do with the Ayotzinapa issue. We do not want simulations, we want concrete actions, we do not want messages of commitment, what we want is action now, concrete results of the investigation and the arrest of the people who harmed and made the students disappear."
An independent report regarding the apparent massacre of 43 students says the bodies were not burned at a garbage dump. Julie Noce reports.
Protesters attack the Guerrero state Congress building to mark the seven-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 missing student, teachers. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
People protest to demand justice for 43 Mexican students at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College who disappeared in the southwest state of Guerrero in September 2014. The students went missing as they were traveling by bus to participate in demonstrations in Mexico City. Investigators said that they were detained by corrupt police and handed over to a drug cartel, though exactly what happened to them is unclear. In July, a commission created in 2014 under an agreement between Mexico and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the atrocity said that the state was responsible for the concealment of vital information, making it impossible to continue its work. IMAGES
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