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Demonstrators throw molotov cocktails over the gates of Mexico's National Intelligence Centre on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the high-profile, unresolved disappearance of 43 students in 2014. The students, from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, disappeared between the night of September 26 and the early morning of September 27, 2014, when they were traveling via bus to participate in demonstrations in Mexico City. The Mexican government has recently promised to provide the parents of the young people with all available information on the case, which a commission of international experts has found to implicate the army. IMAGES
Mexico City, Sep 23 (EFE).- Hundreds of people demonstrated on Thursday in Mexico City to mark the seven-year anniversary, which will t of the disappearance of 43 teaching students in the southern state of Guerrero. On September 26, 2014, local police opened fire on dozens of students in the town of Iguala on the order of then-Mayor Jose Luis Abarca. Six students died, including three from the teaching school, and 43 others were taken into custody and disappeared. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE). SHOT LIST: STUDENTS AND RELATIVES OF THE 43 MISSING AYOTZINAPA RURAL NORMAL SCHOOL STUDENTS PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
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).
The wife of the former mayor of the Mexican town where 43 students were abducted is arrested and flown to a high security prison. Katie Sargent reports
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