Titusinder af mexicanere gik mandag i protestmarch i Mexico City med krav om en fuldstændig opklaring af 43 unge studerendes sporløse forsvinden for fire måneder siden og som støtte til deres slægtninge, der deltog i manifestationen.
The students went missing after taking part in a protest in the south-western town of Iguala on 26 September, writes BBC online Monday.
Prosecutors say they were seized by local police and handed over to a local gang, which killed them.
The protesters started their journey from four different suburbs of Mexico City and headed to the city’s main square, the Zocalo, many carrying pictures of the missing, waving blood-stained flags or posters saying “They were taken alive, we want them back alive now.”
More than 100,000 people have been killed or have disappeared in Mexico. But the case of the 43 students has galvanised Mexicans angry with high levels of corruption and collusion (fordægtigt samarbejde) between local authorities, police and criminal gangs.
“We will carry on fighting until we find them, until the end,” Macedonia Torres, the mother of one the missing students, told Grupo Formula radio.
The remains of only one student, Alexander Mora, have been identified so far. He was part of a group who travelled to Iguala on 26 September and, as part of a protest, commandeered a number of buses.
On their way back to their college in a nearby town the students were intercepted by the police and never seen again.
Se også om udenrigsmagasinet Horisonts udsendelse tirsdag på DR 2 i radio- og TV-oversigten på
http://www.u-landsnyt.dk/radiotv-indhold/horisont-om-mexico-tragedien-om-de-43-studerende
