Mexico finds graves at student massacre site.
Arrest of new suspects in Guerrero state leads to
information on disappearance of dozens of
students, prosecutor says. Mexican authorities have found four more
clandestine graves containing charred human
remains at a site in the restive southwest of the
country, where officials fear missing students
were massacred by gang members and police. Attorney General Jesus Murillo said on Thursday
the motive behind the apparent massacre of
dozens of student teachers, who went missing
after clashing with police in Iguala in the volatile,
gang-ridden state of Guerrero on September 26,
was not yet clear. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin, reporting from Mexico
City, said that federal authorities were
investigating the new leads on Thursday, as
President Enrique Pena Nieto tried to deflect
criticism of government inaction in finding the
43 students. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people held protests across Mexico to demand the return of the missing students, amid fears a police-backed
gang executed them. The young students disappeared after municipal
police officers working with a gang shot at buses
seized by the aspiring teachers in the Guerrero
city of Iguala, and took several of them away in
patrol cars. A mass grave containing 28 unidentified bodies
was discovered on the outskirts of Iguala last
weekend, in the same location where two hit-
men from the Guerreros Unidos gang confessed
to executing 17 students. Authorities said it would take at least two weeks
to confirm the identities of the bodies. The government of President Pena Nieto has
faced US and UN calls to solve the disappearance
and investigate why gang-linked police attacked
the students. Pena Nieto deployed hundreds of federal forces to take over security in Iguala on Monday and
disarm the local police. About 30 investigators
from the prosecutor's office have also traveled to
Iguala. The mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca and his
wife, Maria de Los Angeles Pineda Villa, have been
suspected of having links to the disappearnce of
the students. Both have gone missing. Pena Nieto took office two years ago pledging to
end a wave of violence that has killed about
100,000 people since the start of 2007. Though
homicides have fallen on his watch, other crimes
have increased, including extortion and
kidnapping. Guerrero, which is also home to the resort of
Acapulco, has been one of the most lawless states in Mexico for years.
Source. ajezera

So sad