Protesters filled the streets of Mexico City on Friday (Sept 26) to mark the 11th anniversary of the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.
00:00Protesters filled the streets of Mexico City on Friday to mark the 11th anniversary of the
00:09disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College.
00:16Led by victims' families and current Ayotzinapa students, the march began at the Angel of
00:21Independence and ended at the Zocalo Main Square, with demonstrators demanding justice,
00:26accountability and transparency from the government.
00:56The students vanished in 2014, after more than 100 students and teachers were attacked while traveling to Mexico City to commemorate the 1968 student massacre.
01:19According to two separate international investigations, including one by the Organization of American States OAS,
01:2643 students were kidnapped by organized crime groups working with local police.
01:31The motive remains unclear.
01:33Initial investigations under former President Enrique Peña Nieto concluded that corrupt police, believing the group had been infiltrated by a rival cartel,
01:43handed the students over to a gang that allegedly killed them and burned their bodies.
01:49Family members have long accused Mexican authorities, including the military, of complicity in the students' disappearance.
01:56President Scheinbaum said on Wednesday that the work of a special investigation unit and ongoing meetings with parents could lead to new arrests in the coming days.
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