- Target:
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Region:
- GLOBAL
On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
According to official reports, they commandeered several buses and traveled to Iguala that day to hold a protest at a conference led by the mayor's wife. During the journey local police intercepted them and a confrontation ensued.
Details of what happened during and after the clash remain unclear, but the official investigation concluded that once the students were in custody, they were handed over to the local Guerreros Unidos ("United Warriors") crime syndicate and presumably killed. They had only found one body, and no one really knows what happen to the rest.
It is understood that the students were protesting and fighting against the government, but it does not make it right for the government to hand them to the United Warriors.
We, the undersigned, call on the UN to investigate this case and if more than one of the 43 students are dead, help their families identify their bodies.
We also ask for more information about the case from the federal government of Mexico and the state government of Guerrero where the massacre and the kidnapping happened.
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The Investigate the case of the 43 missing students in Mexico petition to United Nations Human Rights Council was written by Stefany and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.