Mexico ‘certain’ missing students dead: minister
Thu, Jan 29, 2015By AFP, MEXICO CITY
Authorities in Mexico can now say with “legal certainty” that 43 students who went missing in September last year were murdered by hitmen working for a drug gang, Mexican Minister of Justice Jesus Murillo Karam said on Tuesday.
However, parents of the students in a case that convulsed the nation and countries abroad insisted the case not be closed.
The disappearance of the men — all aspiring teachers attending classes at a training college in Guerrero State — sparked nationwide protests and a crisis for the government of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Officials said the students vanished after gang-linked police attacked their buses in the city of Iguala, allegedly under orders from the mayor and his wife in a night of terror that left six other people dead.
The police then delivered the young men to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang, who told investigators they took them in two trucks to a landfill, killed them, burned their bodies and dumped them in a river.
The investigation “gives us the legal certainty that the student teachers were killed in the circumstances that have been described,” Murillo Karam said at a press conference.
Witness and expert testimony “have allowed us to ... come to the conclusion beyond a doubt that the students were abducted and killed, before being incinerated and thrown into the San Juan River, in that order,” he said.
“It is the historic truth,” he said.
He played a video with testimony from detainees and footage from the investigation.
Until now, authorities had still officially considered the students to be missing.
Relatives of the victims, who marched on Monday with several thousand people in Mexico City to mark the four-month mark since their disappearance, have refused to accept the official explanation of events.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-Authorities in Mexico
WHEN-Tuesday
WHAT-43 students who went missing in September last year were murdered
WHY-not given
WHERE-not given
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1. convulsed:使震撼
2. nationwide：全國性的
3. relative：親人ˋ親戚
4. aspiring：有抱負的
5. dump ：傾倒
6. authority：當局
7. conference：發表會
8. circumstance：情況
This is really a tragedy.
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