New mass student abduction case in Mexico
Source: France 24
New mass student abduction case in Mexico
26 November 2014 23:45 (Last updated 26 November 2014 23:46)
Two months before 43 students disappeared in Iguala, 31 high school students in Cocula, were captured.
By Nancy Caouette
MEXICO CITY
Two months to the day after of 43 students disappeared in Iguala, another story of a mass student abduction surfaced Wednesday.
Thirty-one high school students were kidnapped July 17, in broad daylight, in the city of Cocula, in the state of Guerrero, about 37 miles southwest from Iguala, according to an investigation by France 24.
Masked men with guns, dressed in navy blue uniforms, forced the students to climb in police trucks, according to a witness to the abductions.
“I was in the center, in the market, when the criminals came and took the children away,” said a woman who identified herself as Rosa. “They took my daughter with the others,” she told France 24.
“They grabbed them, as they were coming out of school. We don’t know why they took them,” she said, adding that the students were snatched on the last day of school before the holidays.
Other witnesses, too afraid to speak on camera, confirmed to France 24, off the record, that 31 boys and girls disappeared that day.
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Bringing up the bodies: Mexico's missing students draw attention to 20,000 'vanished' others
The shocking disappearance of 43 student teachers lifted the lid on the open secret of Mexico’s many others who’ve disappeared amid drug-fuelled violence
Jo Tuckman in Iguala
Wednesday 26 November 2014 14.49 EST
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A husband and wife, both members of the citizen’s search brigade, talk with two members of the Gendarmería, part of the Mexican federal police.
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They found the first grave in a thicket of spiny huisache trees clinging to the hillside outside the town of Iguala.
Under a pounding midday sun, about a dozen men and women watched as an older man plunged a pickaxe into the heavy soil. Some offered advice on where and how to dig; mostly they looked on in silence
When he turned up a human femur, Mayra Vergara turned her back and broke into silent tears. She had hoped that today she might find some clue to the fate of her brother Tomás, a taxi driver who was kidnapped in July 2012, never to be seen again. But whoever lay in the shallow grave, she said, they deserved more than this.
“Even if it isn’t my brother in there, it is still a person. A person who deserved a proper burial,” she said, her face contorted in anger and grief. “And the question is when? When are they going to do something for us?”
Even if it isn’t my brother in there, it is still a person. A person who deserved a proper burial
The disappearance and probable massacre of 43 student teachers after they were attacked and arrested by Iguala’s municipal police two months ago has focused world attention on the horror of Mexico’s drug violence – and the official corruption that allows much of it to happen.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/mexico-missing-students-thousands-vanished-grave-diggers
