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Protesters mark the 43rd month of the mass kidnapping of 43 students
A demonstration in 2015 on the first anniversary of the Ayotzinapa 43 mass kidnapping

PROTESTERS marked the 43 months since the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico today.

The students, known as the Ayotzinapa 43, have been missing, presumed dead, since their kidnap by local police in Iguala, a town in the south-western state of Guerrero, on September 26 2014.

 

Padres y madres de los 43 estudiantes de #Ayotzinapa en el centro de #Coyoacan a 43 meses de la desaparición de sus hijos pic.twitter.com/3rUEl358F8

— Mariomarlo (@Mariomarlo) April 22, 2018
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