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Medical examiners search for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students in Cocula, Guerrero. | Photo: Attorney General of Mexico
The activist was trying to locate and identify disappeared relatives in mass graves located around Iguala.
A Mexican woman belonging to a group of activists searching their disappeared relatives in mass graves was murdered Friday in Iguala, state of Guerrero.
Two men on a motorbike shot activist Norma Bruno in the head in front of her three children, reported authorities. The murderers immmediately disappeared.
Bruno’s body was handed over to her family, who then blamed the federal authorities for their lack of control over the violence in Iguala.
Bruno belonged to the citizen committee Relatives of the Other Disappeared, created after the discovery of mass graves and corpses in the neighboring areas of Iguala, shortly after the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students.
Since Nov. 23, the committee, with the help of medical experts from the attorney general’s office, were able to locate and exhume 48 bodies in the hills of Iguala, including three bodies that were successfully identified and handed over to their families.
About 1,600 people have gone missing in the country during President Enrique Peña Nieto’s term, according to a recent report from a victims’ commission.
Several mass graves have been discovered in Guerrero since authorities and activists stepped up their search for the remaining 42 students who are still missing after being attacked by police and unidentified masked criminals in September 2014. Only one of the 43 Ayotzinapa students has been identified.
Demonstrations have been held across the country since September, with protesters demanding an end to government corruption after it was discovered that a local mayor and his wife were involved in the disappearance of the students.
The situation of the 43 disappeared students has become a symbol of the larger problems of government corruption and impunity in the country. Protesters have accused all levels of government—municpal, state and federal—of being responsible for the mass killings and disappearances of thousands of people across the country.
See more: Mexican Social Activist Found Dead in ‘Political Crime’
Two men on a motorbike shot activist Norma Bruno in the head in front of her three children, reported authorities. The murderers immmediately disappeared.
Bruno’s body was handed over to her family, who then blamed the federal authorities for their lack of control over the violence in Iguala.
Bruno belonged to the citizen committee Relatives of the Other Disappeared, created after the discovery of mass graves and corpses in the neighboring areas of Iguala, shortly after the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers training college students.
Since Nov. 23, the committee, with the help of medical experts from the attorney general’s office, were able to locate and exhume 48 bodies in the hills of Iguala, including three bodies that were successfully identified and handed over to their families.
About 1,600 people have gone missing in the country during President Enrique Peña Nieto’s term, according to a recent report from a victims’ commission.
Several mass graves have been discovered in Guerrero since authorities and activists stepped up their search for the remaining 42 students who are still missing after being attacked by police and unidentified masked criminals in September 2014. Only one of the 43 Ayotzinapa students has been identified.
Demonstrations have been held across the country since September, with protesters demanding an end to government corruption after it was discovered that a local mayor and his wife were involved in the disappearance of the students.
The situation of the 43 disappeared students has become a symbol of the larger problems of government corruption and impunity in the country. Protesters have accused all levels of government—municpal, state and federal—of being responsible for the mass killings and disappearances of thousands of people across the country.
See more: Mexican Social Activist Found Dead in ‘Political Crime’
