Mexico: Thousands march for missing Ayotzinapa students
The parents of 43 Mexican students who went missing five months ago have been leading a march in Mexico City to call for a full investigation.
Thousands of people have joined the protest, carrying banners with pictures of the missing trainee teachers.
Prosecutors say the students were arrested by corrupt police officers after a demonstration in the town of Iguala on 26 September.
They were handed over to a local criminal gang, who killed them.
The students attended a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa, in south-western Guerrero state.
The college has a history of left-wing activism but it is not clear whether the students were targeted for their political beliefs.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said the criminals burned the bodies in a nearby waste disposal site and scattered their ashes in a local stream.
Forensic experts in Austria carried out DNA tests on bone fragments found in a bag in the area and managed to identify one of the 43 students.
Analysis: Katy Watson, BBC News, Mexico City
It has been five months and the families still await answers but they are not giving up hope. The disappearance of the students has mobilised many Mexicans who say enough is enough.
One supporter at the march carried a sign saying she wanted to be one of the Mexicans to make a difference, not one of the many who seems indifferent to the thousands of disappearances in this country in the past few years.
The call for President Enrique Pena Nieto to step down can be heard loud and clear in the crowds here.
But relatives and independent investigators reject the official version of events.
They have held a series of demonstrations over the past five months to demand that the government do more to find the students.
Prosecutors believe the Iguala mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, ordered the students' arrest because their protest disturbed a planned political speech by his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda.
Both have been arrested and charged with involvement with organised crime.
Structure of the Lead：
Who：43 missing Mexican students' parents
When：2/27
What：march
Why：protest the government
Where：Mexico
When：2/27
What：march
Why：protest the government
Where：Mexico
Keywords：
1.call for：要求
2.banner(s)：旗幟
3.trainee teacher(s)：實習老師
4.prosecutor(s)：起訴人
5.corrupt：腐敗的
6.scatter：分散
7.fragment(s)：碎片
8.mobilize：動員
2.banner(s)：旗幟
3.trainee teacher(s)：實習老師
4.prosecutor(s)：起訴人
5.corrupt：腐敗的
6.scatter：分散
7.fragment(s)：碎片
8.mobilize：動員
This is really an awful news.I think the government should take actions to take into the case in order to give the students' parents a satisfactory answer and explanation.
回覆刪除It's very thriller that many students were killed. The government should not hide the truth, they must find the reason why those students were all disappeared.
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