Mothers of Missing Children Ask for Justice in Mexican Capital City Prensa Latina
go to original May 11, 2016

Relatives of missing people participated in the 5th Demonstration of National Dignity in Mexico City (teleSUR)

Hundreds of mothers from various Mexican states demonstrated in Mexico City - for the fifth year in a row on Mother's Day - to ask for justice.

Participants in the "5th Demonstration of National Dignity, mothers seeking their sons, daughters, truth and justice", started at the Monumento a la Madre to reach the obelisk to Angel de la Independencia, one of the sites of regular meetings for demonstrations and social demands.

This year, the demonstrators ask for the inclusion of the victims' families to draft the General Law against the Forced Disappearance.

Gregoria Ortiz from Pachuca, state of Hidalgo, told the Prensa Latina news agency "as mothers we don't have anything to celebrate today and we gather here every May 10th".

...According to estimates published here, the whereabouts of more than 26,000 Mexicans remain unknown.

Read the rest at Prensa Latina

Related: Mexico Drug War - The Disappeared: "Another Mother's Day in Mexico Without Our Children" (Mexico Voices)

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