Ayotzinapa Parents Conclude 43-Hour Vigil for Missing Students in Mexico City Television del Sur
go to original June 29, 2015

Cries for justice in Mexico on 9-month anniversary of students' disappearance (GNews)

Civil society organizations and the parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who were abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, concluded a vigil called “43 for 43” late Sunday evening in Mexico City.

The 43-hour event was held over the weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts, which is the most important cultural center in the country, where hundreds of people also reached the place to express their solidarity with those who still don't know the whereabouts of their loved ones.

According to the organizers, the event was organized to urge all Mexicans not to forget what happened in Ayotzinapa and to raise awareness about the situation of violence in the country. “The Mexican Society has to resist and fight against the bad government that suggest us to forget, overcome and let things pass,” reads an official document written by the organizers.

The Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported that the parents of the students gave a series of speeches before hundreds of attenders, demanding justice and the safe return of the disappeared Ayotzinapa students. They also demanded that the government give answers regarding their whereabouts, since they have spent nine months of suffering and despair.

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Related: Ayotzinapa, Mexico: "Our Spirit of Struggle Remains Firm; We Demand the Safe Return of Our 43 Disappeared Sons" - Parents (Mexico Voices)

Related: Parents of Missing Ayotzinapa Students Say Truth of Whereabouts Is Near (EFE)

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