On September 26, 2014, students from the Rural Normal School 'Raúl Isidro Burgos' in Ayotzinapa, were attacked by the municipal police in Iguala, a city of the Mexican state of Guerrero. The students were collecting funds to attend the commemoration of the Tlatelolco student massacre, 1968, and to commemorate two other students from the same community who were murdered in 2011. The municipal police opened fire against them, killing three students and three more people. Moreover, 43 students were disappeared, and since then there has not been information of their whereabouts. The next day, one of the students murdered, Julio César Mondragón, was found with signs of torture, his face flayed, his eyes taken out. Last Saturday (October 4th), clandestine mass graves were found near Iguala. According to the state's government, some of the bodies could correspond to the disappeared students. Whether the mass grave contains the bodies of the students or not, this is a tragedy that the KCL Mexican Society condemns.
The Rural Normal schools are dedicated to the education of farmers, to community development and to preserve indigenous languages. For many years the Mexican government has tried to close down this network of schools, but students, teachers, and their communities have managed to preserve them.
The government of the State of Guerrero is not the only place in Mexico where drug-cartels and the government sometimes collaborate and sometimes fight against each other. The KCL Mexican Society in solidarity with the families of students and the community of Ayotzinapa condemn all the events that happened recently and demands that everything is done so that the disappeared students can come back to their families immediately. We also ask the Mexican government to fulfil each and every petition that comes from the students and their family members. We require the Mexican government to do a full, prompt, and impartial investigation of the bodies found at the clandestine graves in Guerrero. We also demand the government to keep peace in the area and elsewhere and to stop this conflict in which mostly innocent people lose their lives.
The government of the State of Guerrero is not the only place in Mexico where drug-cartels and the government sometimes collaborate and sometimes fight against each other. The KCL Mexican Society in solidarity with the families of students and the community of Ayotzinapa condemn all the events that happened recently and demands that everything is done so that the disappeared students can come back to their families immediately. We also ask the Mexican government to fulfil each and every petition that comes from the students and their family members. We require the Mexican government to do a full, prompt, and impartial investigation of the bodies found at the clandestine graves in Guerrero. We also demand the government to keep peace in the area and elsewhere and to stop this conflict in which mostly innocent people lose their lives.
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