MEXICO CITY: Parents of 43 students who disappeared last year camped out Thursday near Mexico's presidential residence demanding a new investigation into their missing children, who investigators say were killed by drug traffickers.
Some two dozen parents were joined by relatives and around 100 supporters in a march that ended a few blocks from the Los Pinos presidential residency, which had been cordoned off by police.
"We demand the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate the case," said Vidulfo Rosales, lawyer for the parents, some of whom said they would not budge until justice was had.
Rosales said the families were also demanding that a technical team be established "as soon as possible," to conduct new research and searches for the students.
Prosecutors say municipal police in the southern city of Iguala abducted the students and handed them over to a drug gang, which killed them and incinerated their bodies at a landfill in September last year.
But independent experts have said there was no scientific proof that the 43 students were incinerated at the landfill and they urged prosecutors to seek new lines of investigation.
"We will not go home until we see truth and justice!" said Marco Flores, the father of one of the students, who accused the military of involvement.
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