Today’s show is dedicated to the case of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa marking the one-year anniversary since the event in which 43 students were forcibly disapeared.

On the night of September 26, 2014, six people were killed by police forces, including three students. One of them, Julio Mondragón, appeared hours later with the skin removed from his face. On that night, 43 student teachers were kidnapped by state forces.

One year on, the case of the 43 students has become an emblematic case of state repression and impunity, and an example of the close links between criminal organizations and state forces. It is also an example of the resistance, the solidarity and the resilience of the Mexican people standing up for justice.

On today’s show we will discuss about the most recent report “informe Ayotzinapa”, produced by an Independent Experts Interdisciplinary group, GIEI for its Spanish Acronym. We are going to hear some reflections on the report and the journey of struggle and resistance led by the relatives of the disappeared students. We will hear the voices of two of the mothers of the Ayotzinapa students. They are Bertha Nava, mother of Julio Cesar Ramirez Nava, one of the students killed during the police attacks of the night of September 26, and Hilda Legideño, mother of Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, one of the 43 disappeared students.

These are some previous Accent of Women shows on the topic:

11 November 2014:

Can 43 students go missing for over a month without a trace? In Mexico, 43 rural teachers from the rural school of Ayotzinapa were kidnapped by local security agents and drug cartels. We discuss about how young poor people become targets of the violenceof State and criminal forces. - See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/accentofwomen/podcast/accent-women-11112014

16 December 2014:

Social unrest in Mexico as a result of the dissapearance of 43 rural student teachers from Ayotzinapa. The action was perpetrated by the State, that responds with fierce repression to all forms of protest. Laura Carlsen, political analyst, discusses from Mexico about the ongoing demonstrations and provides an insight on the current social and political crisis in the country. - See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/accentofwomen/podcast/accent-women-16122014

You can find a video of the report´s launch in Spanish here.

The full inform is here (in Spanish).