MEXICO CITY, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The mothers of 43 students, being abducted and believed killed more than two years ago, marked Mother's Day in Mexico by leading a protest march in the capital on Wednesday.
The mothers of the victims, all students at a teachers' college in Ayotzinapa, a town in the drug-torn southern state of Guerrero, were joined by other women and relatives of those missing in the states of the country.
Chanting "May 10 is not for celebrating. It's for fighting and protesting," about 400 mothers and supporters, most dressed in white and carrying images of their missing children, started marching around 10:30 a.m. in the city.
According to the Mexican government, at least 28,000 Mexicans have gone missing in drug-related violence. Families seized the special occasion to pressure the authorities to do more to locate victims.
"Here we are, mothers looking for our children and raising our voice for all those who are missing from our homes," Araceli Salcedo, mother of a young girl who went missing, told reporters at a rally held after the march.
More than two and a half years after the 43 students were abducted and disappeared, the case is still mired in mystery.
