(Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Mexico City, to mark one year since the disappearance of 43 student teachers. James Blears who attended this rally, reports that there's an overwhelming call for accountability and far reaching reforms.
Listen to the report by James Blears:
One year ago, the student teachers were abducted in Iguala, Southern Mexico by Municipal
Pólice during a demonstration and handed over to gangsters, who massacred them. Now...famlies
of those who've vanished, activists and ordinary people, are calling for law and order
reforms, to prevent another similar outrage. Ernesto Lopez Portillo, who's one of
the protesters, says laws, minds and hearts must change.
"I believe the most important thing of this moment is to express - to create a massive
expression of protest. We have to tell the government and the institutions that this
is just not possible and we will not allow you to forget what happened in Ayotzinapa.
So we have to go out to ask for justice and we have to ask for institutions so this
will never happen again" he said.
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights, which produced a scathing independent
report about the massacre, is coming to Mexico, to help with the ongoing case, which
is far from resolved.
For Vatican Radio...I'm James Blears in Mexico City.
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