19 Months Since Students Disappear, Parents Lead March in Mexico City teleSUR | |
go to original April 27, 2016 |
Thousands protest over Ayotzinapa 43 in Mexico City (Ruptly TV)
Marking 19 months since the 43 Ayotzinapa students were forcibly disappeared by police in Iguala, Guerrero in 2014, the families of the victims held a commemorative march in the Mexican capital from the historic Angel of Independence Monument to the Juarez Hemicycle.
The parents of the students held a press conference Monday in which they reiterated their longstanding demand that the authorities continue the search for the missing 43, as well as prosecute all those implicated in the attacks, disappearances and complicity in the crime.
This demand extends to an investigation of Thomas Zeron, director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico’s attorney general’s office, who the families accuse of planting evidence and formulating the government’s so-called “historic truth” which argues that the 43 students were executed, incinerated and their remains dispersed in a river by organized crime members.
Mario Cesar Gonzalez, one of the fathers, stated, “We want Tomas Zeron to resign and be investigated,” said Gonzalez, “he is the one who lied to us and planted the evidence in the San Juan River.”
The accusation comes after the group of independent experts from the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, gave their second and final 605-page report on the Ayotzinapa case and the government’s handling of it.
Read the rest at teleSUR
Related: The Missing 43: A New York Protest Aimed at Mexico (NY City Lens)
Related: Parents of Missing Mexican Students Criticize Government (VOA News)
We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!
From activities like hiking, swimming, bike riding and yoga, to restaurants offering healthy menus, Vallarta-Nayarit is the ideal place to continue - or start - your healthy lifestyle routine.