Mexico: Two years on from student disappearances, Peña Nieto "will stop at nothing" to cover up abus

Source: Amnesty International

Mexico: Two years on from student disappearances, Peña Nieto "will stop at nothing" to cover up abuses
23 Sep 2016, 2:11pm

A demonstration in London on Monday (26 September) will see 43 chairs set out in front of Mexican Embassy to represent an empty classroom and remember the missing students

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s cynical response to the enforced disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero two years ago illustrates the Mexican government’s ongoing reckless approach to human rights, Amnesty International said today.

The students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teacher Training College were forcibly disappeared on the night of 26 September 2014. They were arrested by municipal police while preparing to participate in a demonstration in Mexico City to commemorate an infamous massacre of students by the military and police on 2 October 1968.

Since then, the remains of only one of the students, 19-year-old Alexander Mora Venancio, have been identified. The fate and whereabouts of the other 42 remain unknown.

Read more: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/mexico-two-years-student-disappearances-pe%C3%B1a-nieto-will-stop-nothing-cover-abuses