MEXICO.- With his face uncovered, Omar Garcia talks about what happened in Guerrero on the night when upwards of 20 students were murdered by local police. The survivor told a news program about what happened on the nigh of September 26th to the group of normalista students, studying to become school teachers at the "Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa Raúl Isidro Burgos".
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Omar Garcia tells how on September 26th, he received a call from a collegue-one of many normalistas that had left school that day headed toward Iguala to collect supplies on a day that ended in tragedy. His collegue called him for help, telling him that the police was changing them and shooting at them, and that at that moment at least one of them was injured with a bullet wound.
Garcia and some other friends hijacked a school bus and on their way to where the students had been taken. What they saw was a scene filled with puddles of blood and a story of abuse of power.
"They told us to be quiet, you came looking for this, you wanted to feel like men, well now you are in it and you have to deal with it." He narrates how he told a member of the force to call for an ambulance to help the injured, and that despite promises the ambulance never showed up.
"They took pictures of everyone, even the guy that was injured, and said we are taking pictures so that the ambulance can more or less figure out what they are coming for. That ambulance never showed up."
"We are another case of missing people, in Mexico and Guerrero they kill people in what they call the collateral damage of their damned policy against various forces, and even against themselves, we don't want to be a part of it, we want a free and just Mexico."
VIDEO: OMAR GARCÍA, SURVIVOR OF THE STUDENT MASSACRE IN IGUALA, TELLS HIS STORY
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