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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:02 PM Oct 2014

Authorities Find More Graves at Site of Presumed Mexico Student Massacre

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Xipe Totec broke this news story:

Authorities Find More Graves at Site of Presumed Mexico Student Massacre
Eliana Dockterman @edockterman
8:17 PM ET

Police have discovered a total of 28 bodies on the outskirts of Iguala

Authorities have found four more graves containing burned human remains at a site where officials believe dozens of missing students were murdered by gang members and police, Reuters reports.

Forty-three students went missing in the violence-plagued state of Guerrero on Sept. 26. Since then authorities have found a total of 28 bodies in 10 graves on the outskirts of Iguala, a town within the same region. Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, his wife and the local head of security have gone missing. Attorney General Jesus Murillo said Thursday that they do not yet know the motive for the suspected massacre of the teachers and students who went missing and that the search for Abarca and the other fugitives is underway. Meanwhile, police are testing the bodies using DNA from family members of the missing.

Thousands of protestors marched through Mexico City on Wednesday, demanding answers. President Enrique Pena Nieto vowed on Monday that whoever murdered the students will be brought to justice. Twenty-two police have already been arrested in connection with the incident, and four more people have been detained in connection with the case.

http://time.com/3487097/mass-graves-mexico-students-missing-iguala/

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Authorities Find More Graves at Site of Presumed Mexico Student Massacre (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2014 OP

Will this be any different from all the killings, all the protests, enough Oct 2014 #1

These were not ordinary students - These were normalistas Xipe Totec Oct 2014 #3

Mexico Mayor Partied Instead of Protecting Students: Prosecutor Judi Lynn Oct 2014 #2

enough

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1. Will this be any different from all the killings, all the protests,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:06 PM

Oct 2014

devastated families, that have gone before? Maybe the fact that some police have been arrested means something? God help us all.

Xipe Totec

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3. These were not ordinary students - These were normalistas

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Fri Oct 10, 2014, 05:44 PM

Oct 2014

Students of the Normative Superior School; a school exclusively for teachers.

These students would be a future generation of teachers for the rural schools of the state.

The Mayor is now on the run and so is the highest ranking security officer.

Judi Lynn

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2. Mexico Mayor Partied Instead of Protecting Students: Prosecutor

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Fri Oct 10, 2014, 02:52 AM

Oct 2014

Mexico Mayor Partied Instead of Protecting Students: Prosecutor
World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: October 10, 2014 03:06 IST

Acapulco: The mayor of the Mexican city where an attack by gang-linked police left six people dead and 43 students missing faces negligence charges for attending a party during the violence, authorities said on Thursday.

Guerrero state prosecutor Inaky Blanco said Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, who has gone into hiding, failed in his duty to protect the students during violence almost two weeks ago that also left some two dozen people injured.

Blanco said Abarca was negligent "in the sense that he preferred during the police assault to remain at a party and later have dinner and then sleep."

The Iguala mayor "left the victims at the mercy of public security members," the prosecutor said.

He added that authorities did not arrest Abarca before he disappeared last week because he has immunity as mayor.

Blanco said four more municipal police officers have been arrested on homicide charges, in addition to 22 who were detained earlier.

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