Thousands march for missing Mexicans
27 January 2015 Last updated at 01:40 GMT
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missing: Thousands march to demand full investigation
Relatives led the marches converting onto Mexico City's main square, the
Zocalo
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Tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations in Mexico
City to demand a full investigation into the disappearance of 43 students four
months ago.
The trainee teachers went missing after taking part in a protest in the
south-western town of Iguala on 26 September.
Prosecutors say they were seized by local police and handed over to a
local gang, which killed them.
Those marching included the families of the missing students.
They started their journey from four different suburbs of Mexico City
and headed to the city's main square, the Zocalo.
More than 100,000 people have been killed or have disappeared in Mexico.
But the BBC's Katy Watson says the case of the 43 students has
galvanised Mexicans angry with high levels of corruption and collusion between
local authorities, police and criminal gangs.
'Carry on fighting'
Relatives of the 43 trainee teachers are sceptical about the official
version for their disappearance.
The missing students were last seen being bundled into police vans in
Iguala
Mexicans took to the streets to show solidarity to the families and
demand that justice be done
"We will carry on fighting until we find them, until the end,"
Macedonia Torres, the mother of one the missing students, told Grupo Formula
radio.
"I don't believe they are dead. And if they are dead we will hold
the government responsible," added Maximino Hernandez, father of Carlos
Lorenzo Hernandez.
At the scene: BBC's Katy Watson in Mexico City
Tens of thousands of protestors marched to the capital's main square,
many carrying pictures of the missing, waving blood-stained flags or posters
saying "They were taken alive, we want them back alive now."
But in a country used to headlines of violence, the
"mega-march" was largely peaceful.
Parents of the missing took turns to speak, calling for justice and for
the government to do more to find out what happened to the missing students.
There's little faith, though, that the authorities will bring the
perpetrators to justice.
Prosecutors say members of the gang confessed to killing the 43 and
burned their bodies after they were told the students belonged to a rival gang.
But the remains of only one student, Alexander Mora, have been
identified so far, after being taken for DNA tests at a forensic centre in
Austria.
He was in his first year of studies at the rural teacher training
college in Ayotzinapa, a college with a tradition of left-wing political
activism.
Alexander Mora was part of a group of students who travelled to nearby
Iguala on 26 September and, as part of a protest, commandeered a number of
buses.
On their way back to their college the students were intercepted by
police allegedly on the orders of the local mayor, who wanted to prevent them
from disrupting a speech his wife was giving at a public event that evening.
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Relatives led the marches converting onto Mexico City's main square, the
Zocalo The missing students were last seen being bundled into police vans in
Iguala Mexicans took to the streets to show solidarity to the families and
demand that justice be done 
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