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Mexico: Iguala Marks 2nd Anniversary of 43 Students’ Disappearance

HeadlineSep 29, 2016

In news from Mexico, about a thousand people marched in the town of Iguala to mark the second anniversary of the kidnapping of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college. The students were attacked by local police and subsequently went missing in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. This is José Nava García, a student who survived the attack.

José Nava García: “We are here to demand justice, because we don’t forget. We, as attack survivors of Ayotzinapa, we are constantly aware of our disappeared classmates, because that night the police were unfortunately waging an all-out war on us, a war without mercy. They waged war on us, and we didn’t at this time understand what was happening. We were just freshmen.”

Meanwhile, in the bordering state of Michoacán, police have arrested at least 47 students from another teachers’ college, after a confrontation with police clad in riot gear. Police say the students had stolen buses. Some news reports say police fired at the students during the confrontation. On Wednesday, fellow students blocked highways to demand their classmates be released.

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