282 Mexican Police Arrested After Killing 2 Protesting Students, 58 Students Still Missing

[Xipe Totec]

In the deeply troubled southwestern Mexican state of Guerro, on Friday and Saturday students from rural areas began to protest discriminatory university practices.

The other motives for the protest are currently unclear, but the end result of this was 58 missing students, 2 students shot and killed by police, 282 cops under arrest in the first wave of arrest, and 22 officers remaining under arrest for suspicion of attempted murder for shooting at the students.



Yes, you read that correctly. Can you even comprehend how large of a massacre this could have been, if these students are never found? Imagine if American police killed two protestors, and suddenly 58 other protesting young students were missing. That would cause massive unrest, far worse than Ferguson; this is a hugely tragic event.

Students from the University of Ayotzinapa are searching for the missing students, they say the military may have them in custody, but no government or military officials have confirmed this.

http://theantimedia.org/282-mexican-police-arrested-after-killing-2-protesting-students-58-students-still-missing/

[Trillo]

1. At least they arrested the cops.

May that mark the beginning of a much larger trend.

[Judi Lynn]

2. OMG. They've been down this road already. Sounds like they are regressing, just like the US,

under too much right-wing influence.

Going fascist.

Was jolted seeing your headline. Mexico doesn't need this. Never did. Horrible.

Things surely started going wild under Bush and Calderon, didn't they? Militarizing the police.....

Thank you for the quick information. Super swift.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Kick. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. Mexico protesters demand answers on missing students

Mexico protesters demand answers on missing students
By AFP 24 mins ago.

Thousands of protesters blocked the highway leading to Acapulco in southern Mexico on Thursday to press authorities to find 43 students missing since a deadly police shooting last weekend.

The demonstration was part of commemorations of a 1968 massacre of students by the army in Mexico City but the protesters focused on the fate of the disappeared in violence-plagued Guerrero state.

Parents of the missing led the march in the state capital Chilpancingo, holding signs saying "they were taken alive, we want them back."

The students, from a teacher training college near Chilpancingo, had gone to the town of Iguala 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the north last Friday to raise funds when they were shot at by municipal police after they hijacked buses to return home.

More:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/mexico-protesters-demand-answers-on-missing-students/article/406599