Thousands March in Mexico City to Demand Justice, Denounce UNAM Shootings teleSUR
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Students marched through Mexico City on Sunday protesting police brutality. A group of around 20 masked students in set oil containers on fire and threw rocks smashing windows of a bank and a petrol station in a business area located outside of Mexico's National Autonomous University after a peaceful demonstration had ended inside. (RT)

As demonstrators prepared to march from the Angel of Independence on Mexico City’s main avenue Reforma toward the Zocalo, they received the news that the city’s main plaza had been taken over by the presidential guard, and so decided to change course. The Monument of the Revolution would be their new destination.

With signs and chants, the marchers demanded the return of the 43 disappeared students and punishment for all responsible authorities.

At the Monument of the Revolution, people shouted out “We want him back alive!” as the name of each of the 43 missing students was called out.

A spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School called for marches to set out from three different points on November 20, each of which will arrive at the Zocalo that evening.

Demonstrators also denounced the incursion of the police onto the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico on Saturday, and that shots were fired at students, resulting in several people wounded.

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