The Sunday News
A largely peaceful march by tens of thousands demanding the return of 43 missing students ended in violence, as a small group of masked protesters battled police in Mexico City’s main square.The march late Thursday sought the return of the students from a rural teachers’ college. November 20 is usually a day reserved for the celebration of Mexico’s 1910-17 Revolution, but Mexicans were in no mood for celebrations.
Many of the marchers carried “mourning” flags with Mexico’s red and green national colours substituted by black stripes.
“The entire country is outraged,” said housewife Nora Jaime. “It is not just them,” she added, referring to the 43 young men who haven’t been seen since being attacked by police in a southern city on September 26.
“There are thousands of disappeared, thousands of clandestine graves, thousands of mothers who don’t know where their children are.” — AP
