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Parents will not allow Mexico to forget the 43
XOCHI WRIGHT writes on a visit to a camp in the heart of Mexico City made up of the parents of the 43 students who disappeared in 2014
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WE WERE transported in a taxi to the planton, a camp set up and occupied by parents of the 43 students who were disappeared in September 2014 from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College.
It has been a thorn in the side of Mexican attorney general’s office for more than three years, having been established soon after the trainee teachers, aged between 19 and 24, vanished from police custody.
Three of their fellow students were shot dead the same night after the group had set off to attend an event hosted by a local politician’s wife.
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