Mexican gang members admit to burning alive 43 students found massacred after local mayor's wife demanded they be dealt with so they would not protest her speech
- Three Mexican gang members have admitted to burning alive some of the 43 students who went missing and were found massacred in September
- The students were taken away by the police, after they opened fire on the group, as Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the wife of Jose Luis Abarca, mayor of Iguala, believed they were getting ready to protest her speech
- The students were actually one a bus tour in honor of students massacred there in 1968 and had no plans to protest
- Pineda and her husband were captured in Mexico City on Monday after being on the run for weeks
Gang members in Mexico have admitted to massacring 43 students who went missing in September.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo said on Friday that three detainees revealed that they set fire to the group - some of whom were still alive - at a rubbish dump near Iguala in the state of Guerrero, close to where the students went missing.
Multiple local police officers have also been arrested and are believed to have played a role in rounding up the students so they could be killed.
So far, 19 mass graves have been discovered around Iguala and more than 70 people have been arrested.
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The entire, horrific incident was masterminded by a local mayor and his wife.
Jose Luis Abarca, who was previously mayor of Iguala, and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda were found and arrested in Mexico City on Monday.
Pineda demanded that police arrest they students when they threatened to ruin a party she was having, and once the police had the students they were then handed over to the gang members.
Prior to this the police also opened fire on the group, killing several before the bodies were burned.
Pineda was able to make these demands as she is at the top of the criminal underworld tree in Iguala, and it was believed her speech may have been her announcement of her desire to succeed her husband as mayor.
What's worse, the students had no intention of disrupting Pineda's speech, but were merely travelling through the town on buses they'd hired to take them to Mexico City for a remembrance service in honor of students massacred there in 1968.
There has been and continues to be a massive outcry across Mexico to see that justice is served for this mass murder.
Prior to this the police also opened fire on the group, killing several before the bodies were burned.
Pineda was able to make these demands as she is at the top of the criminal underworld tree in Iguala, and it was believed her speech may have been her announcement of her desire to succeed her husband as mayor.
What's worse, the students had no intention of disrupting Pineda's speech, but were merely travelling through the town on buses they'd hired to take them to Mexico City for a remembrance service in honor of students massacred there in 1968.
There has been and continues to be a massive outcry across Mexico to see that justice is served for this mass murder.
Authorities searching for the students have found a large number of bodies, although Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said he would have to wait until the results of DNA tests have been returned before confirming their identities.
He admitted that many of the bodies had been badly burned which will make the process of extracting DNA more difficult.
He said: 'I have to identify, to do everything in my power, to identify, to know if these were the students.'
Some parents of the missing students do not believe that their children are among the dead.
Mario Cesar Gonzalez told CNN: 'We are not going to believe anything until the experts tell us: You know what? It is them.'
Isrrael Galindo, claimed: 'The government is trying to resolve things its way so that to rid itself of this great problem it is facing. My son is alive. My son is alive. My son is alive.'
The victims were mostly in their 20s studying to be teachers when they planned to travel to Iguala on September 26 for a demonstration
Amnesty International has criticised the Attorney General over his handling of the case.
Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas Director of Amnesty International said: 'Tragically, the enforced disappearance of these student teachers is just the latest in a long line of horrors to have befallen Guerrero state, and the rest of the country.
'The warning signs of corruption and violence have been there for all to see for years, and those that negligently ignored them are themselves complicit in this tragedy.'
Amnesty said the mayor of Iguala has long been suspected of criminality and links to drugs cartels.
Ms Guevara Rosas said: 'If the allegations against Iguala’s mayor and the federal and local police had been investigated when other serious human rights violations occurred, it is more than likely that the terrible murders and enforced disappearances of the students would not have taken place.'
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