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December 8, 2014

Forensics Team in Mexico Confirms Remains of 1 of 43 Missing Students 
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An independent forensics team in Mexico says tests on human remains have
confirmed the identity of one of the 43 students missing since late
September. The initial DNA testing is consistent with theories the
students' bodies were incinerated at a garbage dump. The students'
abduction by police and drug gangs has set off protests across Mexico
against state-backed violence and corruption, prompting the worst crisis
of President Enrique Peña Nieto's two years in office. Omar García, a
student from the missing victims' school, said the protests will
continue.

Omar García: "We take this news with a lot of rage and anger, really
just how anyone would take this news. It's not easy. It's quite
difficult. But we are determined and will not back down like Enrique
Peña Nieto wants us to do. This is a life of one of our compañeros (or
classmate, you can say) of a boy who wanted to be a teacher, who came
from a rural area and had the hope to be someone. His family have fought
for almost two-and-a-half months to find him. It's obvious that we take
this with rage and with indignation and with stronger determination to
keep fighting for justice, for the punishment of those responsible and
to change these kinds of things that happen in our country."

 

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