The families of the 43 students who have been missing in Mexico since September say they will continue their protest throughout the holidays as they call for justice to be served. “There is no vacation, no Christmas or New Years; these days are for struggling,” Meliton Ortega, the father of one of the students, said on Sunday. The families are due to stage a protest in Mexico City on December 26. The government “has claimed that the issue has cooled down but we reject that idea,” Ortega said, adding, “On the contrary, our spirits are up and we will insist that justice is done.” On September 26, 43 student teachers disappeared in the southern city of Iguala in the state of Guerrero following an attack by police forces suspected of having links to drug gangs. The incident took place during a protest over teachers’ rights. Violent protests have erupted in Mexico ever since officials announced that members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel had confessed to killing the young men and burning their remains after receiving them from corrupt police officers. Austrian experts have identified one of the missing students from a piece of bone in a bag of ash and burned tire discovered in a river, where the drug gang members claimed to have thrown the students’ remains. The families of the students have urged further investigations. Dozens more bodies were found in mass graves during the search for the students in Guerrero. Over 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico in gang-related violence since 2007.
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