Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we look at the case of 43 missing students in Mexico and other disappearances in the country.
Tens of thousands of Mexicans hit the streets of the capital on Thursday evening, angered by the government's response to the case of 43 students who went missing in Guerrero state in September.
The group of students in a rural teachers' college disappeared on Sept. 26 on a trip to the town of Iguala. Prosecutors allege the students were killed by a local gang after police had handed them over to the criminals. Gang members told investigators they had killed the students and buried their bodies.
The case of the missing students has put the high number of unsolved disappearances in Mexico once again in the spotlight. "It is not just them," housewife Nora Jaime told the Associated Press during Thursday's demonstration, referring to the missing students. "There are thousands of disappeared, thousands of clandestine graves, thousands of mothers who don't know where their children are."
The WorldPost spoke with Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, about the disappearances in the country and the many Mexican families who live in insecurity about their fates of their sons and daughters.
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