Who were the missing 43?

Who were the missing 43?

It has been over seven years since 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Guerrero, Mexico, were taken by armed men in the middle of the night. They were never seen again. Their disappearance sparked mass protests, as the 43 became symbols of Mexico’s unchecked human rights abuses.

Are the 43 students still missing?

The 43 students, however, were never found. The mass disappearance of the 43 students marked arguably the biggest political and public security crisis Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto had yet faced in his administration (2012–2018).

Who took the 43 missing students?

What happened to them? The first official investigation – carried out under then-President Enrique Peña Nieto – found that the 43 had been seized by corrupt municipal police officers who handed them over to members of local drugs gang Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors).

What school did the kidnapped students attend?

The attackers opened fire and overpowered security guards after storming the Bethel Baptist high school in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, abducting most of the 165 pupils boarding there overnight. “The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped.

How did the 43 students go missing?

What happened to them? The first official investigation – carried out under the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto – found that the 43 were seized by corrupt municipal police officers who handed them over to members of local drugs gang Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors).

How many children have been kidnapped in Nigeria?

A total of 1,440 students have been abducted and 25 school attacks have taken place in Nigeria in 2021, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Nigerian children have been subjected to a conflict that has ravaged their country for 12 years, suffering its consequences, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.