Students who survived Mexico’s night of bloody horror accuse army and police

*This is poignant. An eyewitness, survivor of the attack against Mexican students that ended in the disappearance of 43 protesters, tells his story. VL

By Nina Lakhani, The Guardian

Uriel Alonso Solís is an affable 19-year-old, the oldest of five children from a poorcampesino family. But his grittiness shows through as he recounts the terrible night his college friends – four of whom he grew up with – were seized and hauled off to face a brutal fate that still reverberates across Mexican society.

Alonso survived the horrific attack on unarmed students by state and criminal forces last September in the southern state of Guerrero, which left six people dead, 25 injured and 43 trainee teachers forcibly disappeared.

“Five carloads of masked police surrounded our three buses, and as we got out to see what they wanted they started shooting. There were bullets flying everywhere, and people started running. I saw one of my classmates go down. He’d been shot in the head, everyone was crying and screaming, but I was really surprised how calm I was. I started calling friends at the school to help us.”

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