UN: Parents of Missing Student Teachers Are at Risk and Need Protection Jo Tuckman - The Guardian
go to original December 5, 2014

The Stream discussed Mexico's case of 43 missing students and how it is impacting the country. This conversation featured activist and human rights lawyer Luis Fernando Garcia, Jose Carreno of Excelsior, and Ernesto Schwartz-Marin of Citizen-Led Fore. (Al Jazeera)

The UN High Commission for Human Rights has warned that the parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared after they were attacked by police have been put at risk by a campaign to demonise their missing sons.

Javier Hernández, the representative in Mexico for the UN High Commission, told the Guardian that the parents – and protesters calling for justice – needed protection amid a campaign to denigrate the trainee teachers who vanished 10 weeks ago.

“Some are starting to vilify and insult the disappeared students and demonise their parents and their demands,” said Hernández. “The vast wave of protest generated by the case of the 43 students needs to be protected.”

The disappearance of the students – apparently at the hands of corrupt local police in league with a criminal gang – has triggered a wave of demonstrations against violence and criminality enabled by the country’s deep-rooted political corruption. More protests are planned in the country’s capital on Saturday.

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