Clashes break out in Mexico City as it marks the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students

“Thousands attended a rally in Mexico City on Friday to mark the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College students who went missing in Iguala in 2014. Footage captured moments of heightened tension outside the National Palace, where protesters threw fireworks as gunshots rang out in the background. Earlier, parents, relatives, protesters and students marched through the streets holding banners reading “Where are our children” and “It was the army.” “Ten years have been wasted because they haven’t solved the case,” said the sister of a missing student. “We hope that with the new president there will be a solution, or at least clarity about what happened.” feeling of helplessness that people who went to fight did not return to their homes and disappeared,” said one protester. In 2014, 43 students between the ages of 17 and 25 were reportedly abducted from the Normal Rural Isidro Burgos teacher training center in Ayotzinapa. Iguala and haven’t been seen since. Authorities eventually identified the remains of three victims. The government and investigators said the students were taken by corrupt police officers and handed over to drug cartels. Despite a decade of investigation, the case remains unsolved The Human Rights Office expressed disappointment on Thursday at the authorities’ “unsatisfactory results”. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which sent experts to Mexico for eight years to assist in the investigation, said in a statement it was concerned the investigation had stalled. and denounced a “pact of silence that has hampered the identification of perpetrators and those who monitor them.”