Museum in Mexico City Will Remember #Ayotzinapa Telesur English
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A woman visits the art exhibit “A Farewell to Arms. Contraband on the Border” at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City in April, 2012. (Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press)

The Mexican Museum of Memory and Tolerance will hold a 2015 exhibition about the murders, executions, disappearances and the impunity afflicting Mexico.

The museum, which opened in 2010, seeks to preserve the historical memory of the most shocking crimes against humanity. It houses exhibitions about the Nazi holocaust, the genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and massacres in Guatemala, among others.

According to its director, Shanon Zaga, 2015 will be the year the museum will focus on the crimes against humanity undertaken in Mexico itself. It will feature the tragic events of the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa.

Exhibitions will range from the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, to the the mass murder of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez in past decades. Most pressingly, one of the exhibits will focus on the recent events of the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa.

“Gandhi achieved India’s independence, Martin Luther King fought for civil rights in the United States, but in Mexico we have a movement and it gets diluted; it disappears and the responsibility is ours,” said Zaga, an expert on the genocides and crimes against humanity, to Mexican newspaper El Universal.

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