Missing students spark more protests in Mexico
About 3,000 people
took to the streets of downtown Mexico
City
The students went
missing on Sept. 26, in an apparent kidnapping and suspected massacre by a
police-backed gang that sparked nationwide protests and caused a crisis for
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The latest marches
were led by parents and other relatives and friends of the missing, including
students from their teacher training college in Guerrero State
“We want them
alive,” protesters chanted, walking behind gigantic portraits of the missing
students and a huge Mexican flag, whose red and green colors were replaced by
black.
“What does
Ayotzinapa want?” protest leaders called out, referring to the name of the
students’ school.
“Justice.
Justice,” the crowd responded.
If all of the
students are confirmed dead, it would rank among the worst mass murders in a
drug war that has killed more than an estimated 80,000 people and left about
22,000 others missing since 2006 in
Mexico.
Authorities say
the aspiring teachers vanished after corrupt police officers attacked their
buses in the city of Iguala
The police
allegedly then delivered the young men to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug
gang, who told investigators that they took them in two trucks to a landfill,
killed them, burned their bodies and dumped the remains in a river.
Only one of the
students has been identified so far from charred remains.
On Wednesday last
week, the students’ parents protested under heavy rains in front of the Los
Pinos presidential residence and office.
In a sign of the
violence that continues to reign in Guerrero
State
Gregorio Lopez
Gorostieta was discovered in the Tierra Caliente region two months after
another priest’s body was found.
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Structure
of the Lead：
WHO- Guerrero
State College’s students and
their parents, relatives and other protests
WHEN- Sun, Dec 28, 2014
WHAT-Those missing students’ parents and
relatives took to the streets for the missing studends
WHY- To protest the police and authority
WHERE - Downtown Mexico City
WHERE - Downtown Mexico City
HOW- Took to the streets
Keywords：
1. massacre：大屠殺
2. police-backed gang：有警察靠山的幫派
3. portraits：畫像
4. aspiring：有抱負的
5. corrupt：腐敗的
6. allegedly：據稱
7. landfill：垃圾掩埋場
8. charred remains：焦黑的遺體
9. priest：牧師
