Thousands march in Mexican border city to protest killings of women

Published: 2005-05-31

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Some 20,000 people marched through Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican-U.S. border to demand authorities end the murders of hundreds of women, as the papal nuncio and Mexican bishops asked police to get to the bottom of the killings. Many of the protesters at the May 27 march were children excused from school to attend, local media reported. Two days earlier, several thousand teachers marched through Ciudad Juarez to demand police find Edith Aranda, a 22-year-old elementary school teacher who disappeared May 3. The protesters, mostly dressed in white, shouted: "Enough. We don't want any more violence. We want peace," reported The Associated Press. Ciudad Juarez, a manufacturing city of 1.3 million across the border from El Paso, Texas, has been rocked by more than a decade of unsolved murders. Federal investigators say more than 350 women have been killed since 1993.

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