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Huge march against crime wave
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-28 08:54

At least a quarter of a million Mexicans marched through the capital and other cities on Sunday to protest authorities' failure to control lawlessness in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.

In the biggest demonstration in Mexico in more than 10 years, protesters dressed in white filled Mexico City's main Zocalo Square, which holds more than 100,000 people, and packed surrounding avenues.


Mexicans pay tribute to victims of violent crimes Sunday June 28, 2004 as they march during a silent protest. [AP]
Many carried banners urging the death penalty for kidnappers, rapists and murderers.

Even crime-hardened Mexicans have been shocked by a recent wave of kidnappings. In one case last month, two brothers were abducted, shot dead and their bodies dumped in a garbage bin even though their parents paid a $600,000 ransom.

The bells of the city's cathedral rang out to greet marchers who sang Mexico's nation anthem in the square.

In Tijuana, near the U.S. border, 15,000 people marched through to protest crime, and smaller protests took place in other Mexican cities, local media said.

Mexico United Against Crime, one of the march organizers, said anywhere between 350,000 and two million people took part in the protest. Local media put attendance at more than 250,000.

From 1992 to 2002, Mexicans reported at least 15,000 kidnappings, second only to war-torn Colombia, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.

March organizers said most violent crime goes unreported, partly because of police corruption and a sense that nothing will be done.

"We are afraid. We can't go out onto the street and the police do absolutely nothing to protect us," said Yolanda Tellez, 62, who is retired.

A group of businessmen hired New York's crime-busting former mayor Rudolph Giuliani last year for $4.3 million to help clean up Mexico City and police say tough new "zero tolerance" measures in the capital are working.

But kidnapping and assaults are still common and federal police last week arrested a group of elite policemen in Mexico City who abducted businessmen using false arrest warrants.

The march has pitted President Vicente Fox against political rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the mayor of Mexico City, who protesters accuse of being too soft on violent crime.

Conservative Fox said last week he was waging "the mother of all battles against crime" and urged Mexico City's leftist administration to do more.

But protesters were unimpressed by both Fox and city hall.

"They have politicized the issue so much instead of doing something about crime," said Victor Manuel Rojas, riding a horse and carrying a flag with Mexico's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The event was billed as silent but protesters broke into chants of "Mexico, Mexico."

The murder of a crusading journalist in Tijuana this week was a reminder that drug gangs flourish on the U.S.-Mexican border despite a crackdown by Fox's government.

Police have also failed to make headway in solving the murders of more than 300 women in the last 10 years in the city of Ciudad Juarez, near the border with the United States. Amnesty International has accused police in the city of gross negligence in failing to end the killings.

In Mexico City, marchers carried photographs of murder victims.

"She was my cousin," said protester Eduardo Torres, clutching a framed picture of a young girl in a party dress. "They kidnapped her and killed her two months ago."



 
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