Five years after the disappearance of the ayotzinapa standardists, parents of the 43 young men demanded from the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies that the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) initiate legal action against officials who have hindered the clarifying what happened in 2014.
They also asked lawmakers to monitor new investigations into the disappearance of their children.
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“We require this Legislature to monitor the investigations carried out by the authorities and to urge all institutions to contribute their efforts to investigations within their powers,” said Hilda Hernández Rivera, Caesar’s mother Manuel Gonzalez.
Mothers and fathers of the missing students of the Normal Rural school of #Ayotzinapa, Raúl Isidro Burgos, are in this legislative precinct, on the occasion of the fifth year of events in Iguala, Guerrero. #Ayotzinapa5años pic.twitter.com/sXeUU0pvsG
— Chamber of Deputies (@Mx_Diputados) September 26, 2019
To the Sedena, they asked to have openness for members of the Army, attached to the 27th infantry battalion of Iguala, to be investigated for their likely participation, directly and indirectly, in the aggressions against the students.
“Five years we have lived a nightmare that does not end, five years of uncertainty. Time is moving forward and our health diminishes,” she said, and reminded Minerva Bello, the mother of another student who died without knowing her son’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Hilda Legideño, mother of the normalist Jorge Antonio Tizapa, accused that during the investigation of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto he tortured himself to arrestand there was manipulation of scenes.
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Following the mothers’ message, lawmakers counted to ’43, after which they shouted “justice!”
Morena’s deputies carried cardboard with the faces of the normalists and chanted the slogans of the relatives.
Afterwards, the chairman of the Political Coordination Board, Mario Delgado, initiated a list of the names of the 43 students, in which after each of the brunettes he replied: “Presentation alive!”.
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Panista Laura Rojas, president of the Chamber of Deputies, acknowledged that the events of Iguala, Guerrero, left a wound in Mexico.
“This is a day when we are mourning with you and with all the victims of crime in Mexico,” he told the parents who arrived in San Lázaro.
“Today we honor all the absent and present who have suffered.”
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