2014-11-08 08:29:00

Mexico official confirms deaths of 43 missing students


(Vatican Radio) Mexico's Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam has confirmed the appalling fate that befell 43 student teachers, who municipal police handed over to gangsters in southern Mexico six weeks ago.

Listen to the report by James Blears:


At a press conference on Friday, he confirmed what everyone already suspected: that the 43 students who were abducted, rather than arrested by municipal police in the City of Iguala, are all dead.  

The students were protesting about hiring practices, when municipal police opened fire. In the incidents which followed, six people died and 25 were wounded.

Arrested members of the so-called United Warriors (Guerreros Unidos) gang have said that some of the students were already dead handed over to them by local police. But they admitted that they themselves then shot dead any who were still alive.

They then began a grisly process of burning the bodies, crushing the remains, placing them in bags and dumping them in a river. The attempt to obliterate all trace evidence took many hours. Yet, it did not work. Six bags have been recovered and the charred remains are proving difficult to identify.

The criminality among local government and law-enforcement officials, as well as the cold-blooded and methodical savagery of this crime, have enraged and outraged ordinary Mexican citizens, who are now demanding that high-ranking officials bring about swift and radical reforms to a deeply flawed system.  

Protests continue and demands that every person involved in this massacre be brought to justice have grown into a groundswell.   








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