PBI-Mexico accompanies the 10th anniversary march in Mexico City seeking truth and justice for the Ayotzinapa 43
PBI-Mexico has posted: “#Ayotzinapa10 years September 26th marked 10 years since the disappearance of the 43 students from #Ayotzinapa. PBI accompanies the march for truth, justice, and an end to widespread impunity in cases of enforced disappearance in Mexico #JusticeForThe43.”
Thousands marched
The Associated Press also explains: “Families of the 43 students from a rural teacher’s college abducted 10 years ago in southern Mexico marked the painful anniversary Thursday [September 26], disillusioned after what they say was a decade of unfulfilled government promises. Thousands marched with the families in the rain through Mexico’s capital, demanding the truth about what happened and justice for the missing.”
Somoselmedio highlights: “Lawyer and human rights defender Vidulfo Rosales Sierra [of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre], who also represents the affected families, denounced that the authorities tried to sabotage the march by placing cement barriers to block the advance of the demonstrators. Rosales stressed that, in addition to denying the truth to the families, the struggle for justice was betrayed. ‘It is unacceptable that, added to the daily pain and suffering of our mothers, today their path is also obstructed,’ he declared.”
10 years ago
El Pais also notes: “On the night of September 26 and early morning of September 27, 2014, the criminal group Guerreros Unidos and the police, backed by a corrupt network of local, state, and federal institutions, kidnapped 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural normal school in Ayotzinapa. The young people were trying to travel in five buses from the city of Iguala to the country’s capital for the commemoration of another student massacre, that of October 2, 1968, in the Tlatelolco square, when they were attacked with bullets.”
Demanding all the files from the military
And the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) states: “The investigation into the forced disappearance of these young students a grave instance of state violence in Mexico, was initially manipulated to fraudulently protect those responsible. Despite the requests of the parents, their representatives and the prosecutorial authorities, it has not been possible to obtain full access to the military information necessary to clarify the facts and determine the whereabouts of the students. …To the military authorities, we demand the delivery of all the files in their possession related to this case, since it is clear that they have information that can expedite the investigations.”
A new Mexican president
WOLA adds: “The upcoming inauguration of president Claudia Sheinbaum on October 1 thus marks a decisive moment for the Ayotzinapa case and for the country’s disappearance crisis. The new president and her government have an obligation to take up the case and the crisis it represents, not only to search for and identify the direct victims, but to break the cycle of disappearances in Mexico.”
We continue to follow this.
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