Parents of Missing Ayotzinapa Students Tell Government: 'Keep Looking for Them' Fusion
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Without firm evidence of identification, the families of the 43 trainee teachers won’t accept their loved ones are dead. (euronews)

Relatives of the 43 college students missing since September say the Mexican government is “torturing” them by releasing the gruesome confessions of three gang members who say they shot and burned the students.

“For us, these [declarations] are another shameless way in which the federal government is torturing us” Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, a spokesman for the parents said in a press conference, urging the government to continue its search.

Earlier on Friday, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo showed journalists taped confessions in which three drug traffickers admitted to killing the students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher’s college after they were detained by police in the city of Iguala. The gangsters said that they burned the bodies of the missing students, and put their remains in trash bags, which were left at a garbage dump near the city of Cocula.

The remains have not been positively identified, and Murillo cautioned that this was just an update on the investigation.

“But our findings lead us to believe that the disappeared youth have been murdered,” he said.

Parents and others, however, accused the government of rushing to close the investigation in order to draw attention away from human rights abuses in the country.

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