On September 26, 43 college students went missing in southern Mexico and no one knew why. On November 7, three detained gang members confessed to murdering, burning, and throwing away the bodies of the missing students.
Mexican attorney general Jesus Murillo cited the confession of the three gang members. Murillo said that the detainees admitted to setting the students on fire in a dump near the city of Iguala, Guerrero. The students were burned so bad that their teeth cannot be used as identifiers because they disintegrate just by being touched. Technically, the Mexican government is still considering the students "missing" until they can match the DNA of the bodies to that of the victims. Even though it is not 100% confirmed that these bodies belong to the missing students, the shoe definitely seems to fit. Murillo even believes that these decomposed bodies belong to the students. "The confessions we have gathered ... very sadly point to the murder of a large number of students..."
This is one of the most macabre massacres I have heard of. Not only did the students suffer terribly by being burned alive, they were also killed for no reason. You could say that they were just an unfortunate group to be killed so a certain gang in Mexico could make a statement to the government, but that is not a good enough reason to take away forty three lives. They were all going to college, which means that they wanted to actually do something with their lives and contribute to society. To take away that opportunity from them and from others to benefit from them is the definition of evil. Even though the gang members only murdered 43 people, they made many other people victims as well.
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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/7/gang-member-confessionspointtomassacreofmissingmexicostudents.html
Mexican attorney general Jesus Murillo cited the confession of the three gang members. Murillo said that the detainees admitted to setting the students on fire in a dump near the city of Iguala, Guerrero. The students were burned so bad that their teeth cannot be used as identifiers because they disintegrate just by being touched. Technically, the Mexican government is still considering the students "missing" until they can match the DNA of the bodies to that of the victims. Even though it is not 100% confirmed that these bodies belong to the missing students, the shoe definitely seems to fit. Murillo even believes that these decomposed bodies belong to the students. "The confessions we have gathered ... very sadly point to the murder of a large number of students..."
This is one of the most macabre massacres I have heard of. Not only did the students suffer terribly by being burned alive, they were also killed for no reason. You could say that they were just an unfortunate group to be killed so a certain gang in Mexico could make a statement to the government, but that is not a good enough reason to take away forty three lives. They were all going to college, which means that they wanted to actually do something with their lives and contribute to society. To take away that opportunity from them and from others to benefit from them is the definition of evil. Even though the gang members only murdered 43 people, they made many other people victims as well.
Link to article:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/7/gang-member-confessionspointtomassacreofmissingmexicostudents.html
This is truly revolting and terribly inhumane. It is extremely unfair that these innocent college students had to lose their lives just to fulfill the intentions of an evil gang.
ReplyDelete-Vivie Behrens
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Wow! This is not humane at all. These college students definitely didn't deserve to be tortured and their lives to be taken away. The fact that these gang members killed 43 people is insane. I hope justice is served.
ReplyDeleteHow do you even do that?! Are they not human? I don't know how they can live with themselves.
ReplyDelete-Kennedi Mayes
This is sickening to dehumanize people such as they did. I can only hope that our justice system can interpret the laws to serve these people the punishment they deserve. Elizabeth Muscari p6
ReplyDeleteI never understood how someone can murder another even with "reasoning". I cannot wait until these gang members are caught so they can serve the time they deserve. I can't believe this is actually happening in the world.
ReplyDeleteThis is so tragic, those people had such bright futures, it is a shame their lives were cut short.
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