Mass grave in Mexico may hold bodies of 40+ student protestors missing since last week

[cali]

It's almost certainly the students even though authorities won't confirm yet. Arrested police provided the information about where the bodies were buried.




A mass grave has been found on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on 27 September, officials say.

It is not clear whether the bodies found in a pit are those of the missing students, who were last seen being forced into police vans.

The group had travelled to the area, in the state of Guerrero, to take part in a protest over teachers' rights.

Police opened fire on their buses, killing six people.

Twenty-two police officers are being held in connection with the shooting.

Witnesses said the most of the survivors - all trainee teachers - were bundled into police vans before disappearing.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29493797

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/05/mass-grave-found-mexican-town-43-students-missing

http://www.thejournal.ie/mass-grave-mexico-1706882-Oct2014/

[cali]

1. kick

this is so disturbing and I don't really understand why either police or gangs would do this.

[seabeyond]

3. yes. i agree with all you say. .... nt

[Blue_Tires]

12. Because both sides are business partners

and they don't want anybody disturbing business...

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. oh no

[Logical]

4. That country has some major leadership issues. nt

[cali]

5. that country has some major corruption issues

not that the two aren't tightly interwoven.

[truebluegreen]

6. Jaysus H.

How nice to be home again.

[cali]

7. anyone have any idea why the police and gangs would do this?

[cali]

8. update

gang hitman has confessed to murder of 17 students in conjunction with police forces.

Students were protesting corruption

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-06/hitmen-admit-killing-17-of-43-missing-mexico-students/5792612

[LuvNewcastle]

9. I want people to be able to come here to America when staying

where they are has become intolerable, but the ideal solution would be for the people with corrupt, evil governments to overthrow those governments and build better countries. What would it take for the good people of Mexico to stand up against their corrupt systems and change things there?

I know it would be hard. It's hard enough for us to fix the problems with our own government, and the situation here doesn't even compare to Mexico. But why is it that so many give up on Mexico and choose to flee rather than stay and fight for a better country? Could the good people here assist them in any way?

All I know is that allowing large numbers of immigrants here is a temporary solution to this ongoing problem. We can't go on like this forever.

[cali]

10. I don't know what the solution is either, but clearly protesting corruption

in Mexico can get you brutally murdered.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. I guess it would take a civil war to really make a change there.

The people who want a better country would have to be armed. We've been there and done that in Central and South America and we've gotten nothing but blowback from it, so I suppose we'll just have to wait and let them work it out themselves. I hate to see such suffering, but 'helping' can often make things even worse.

[Hortensis]

13. Mexico has a lot going for it to protect. Including the vote -- an opportunity for

revolution every election. That said, we've been very nervous about being stopped by troops in the Mexican desert while traveling down there before.

If these officers are the murderers, they are likely to be typical strongly authoritarian conservatives, the kind of guys who angrily shoot down demonstrating students in the U.S. for the crime of not being properly obedient to authority. Or the same general type, but just following orders, unhappily perhaps but dutifully.