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Families of Murdered Mexican Students Condemn Export of German Guns

© AP Photo / Marco UgarteThe relatives of 43 missing college students hold posters of their missing loved ones as they demonstrate outside Germany's embassy in Mexico City.
The relatives of 43 missing college students hold posters of their missing loved ones as they demonstrate outside Germany's embassy in Mexico City. - Sputnik International
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The families of missing Mexican students are urging Germany to abide by the international law and stop exporting arms to Mexico hit by social conflicts. Allegedly, the weapons used to kill the students are of German origin.

The relatives of 43 missing college students hold posters with images of their missing loved ones, as they protest their disappearance, at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW, December 26 (Sputnik) — The families of students who went missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero initiated a protest outside the German Embassy in Mexico City on Thursday demanding that Berlin stop exporting arms to the country, claiming German weapons were used to kill the students, news agency EFE reported.

“We are before this embassy to demand that the sale of weapons to Mexico is stopped, because they are used to kill the students,” the spokesperson of the students’ families, Felipe de la Cruz, was quoted as saying by EFE.

According to him, the country’s Attorney General’s Office informed the lawyers of the families that weapons "used in the assassination of the youths in Iguala and Cocula are of German origin.”

Leaflets with the images of 43 missing students from the state of Guerrero - Sputnik International
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De la Cruz also added that the families are requesting Germany comply with international law and not “sell arms to areas where there are political and social conflicts, as is happening in Mexico,” referring to the the Arms Trade Treaty, which it has ratified.

On September 26, a bus of students heading to a peaceful protest in Iguala, Mexico, was intercepted by local police. Six people died in the initial clash and the remaining 43 were then handed over to a criminal gang. One student was confirmed dead following an identification of remains. The remaining young men have allegedly been killed, according to an official investigation report.

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