UN: parents of missing Mexican student teachers are at risk and need protection

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

UN: parents of missing Mexican student teachers are at risk and need protection

Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
The Guardian, Friday 5 December 2014 19.36 GMT

The UN High Commission for Human Rights has warned that the parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared after they were attacked by police have been put at risk by a campaign to demonise their missing sons.

Javier Hernández, the representative in Mexico for the UN High Commission, told the Guardian that the parents – and protesters calling for justice – needed protection amid a campaign to denigrate the trainee teachers who vanished 10 weeks ago.

“Some are starting to vilify and insult the disappeared students and demonise their parents and their demands,” said Hernández. “The vast wave of protest generated by the case of the 43 students needs to be protected.”

The disappearance of the students – apparently at the hands of corrupt local police in league with a criminal gang – has triggered a wave of demonstrations against violence and criminality enabled by the country’s deep-rooted political corruption. More protests are planned in the country’s capital on Saturday.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/05/mexico-missing-student-teachers-un-risk

[Judi Lynn]

1. Excellent article for those of us who haven't known too much about this crime against the people.

It was interesting seeing this paragraph among the others:

Several previous marches in the city ended with outbreaks of violence – fuelled by heavy handed police tactics and the alleged presence of agents provocateurs among the protesters.

Also, this was sickening to learn. The fascists attacking the parents sound so much like D.U. trolls, don't the?

The anti-student tweets included dismissals of the missing as “bloody vandals”, alongside racist slurs and references to their poverty. Numerous jokes have used the government’s announcement that it believes the students were probably massacred in a rubbish dump and burned on a huge funeral pyre. One this week read: “The Hunger Games: Ayotzinapos in Flames”.

You can always expect racist fascist monsters to come forward to make a hideous situation created by fascists even worse. It's the reason to live.

It sounds just horrible. So much trouble. Vicious, stupid, greedy, murderous people trying to destroy those who have always taken the higher road.