<br /> <p>Police threw tear gas bombs at friends and family of the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College as they attempted to protest in front of a Secretariat of the Interior building in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 25.</p><p>Federal police forces set up a barricade across Bucareli Street to stop the protesters from reaching the government building.</p><p>On September 26, 2014, a bus hijacking for a protest led to the disappearance and death of the teaching students. The Mexican government’s investigation concluded the “Ayotzinapa 43” were killed and incinerated in a fire</a>, but this account is sharply criticized by international forensics experts.</p><p>Reports</a> from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have challenged the government’s investigation of the disappearances and alleged that the students were abducted by local authorities and tortured to give confessions.</p><p>Authorities have arrested 128 people, reported the New York Times, 70 of whom were linked to the police or drug cartels.</p><br />
