今天如果你問一百個台灣的大學生，有沒有聽說過香港最近發生的抗爭？我想至少應該有95個會說聽過，因為我猜台灣媒體及網路一定又在發高燒。

但是，如果你問一百個台灣的大學生，有沒有聽說過墨西哥最近發生的師範學院教師與學生抗議高學費及城鄉差別待遇的事(這起抗爭據傳是由蒙面騎士Macros所屬的EZLN 所發起。)？我想，很可能連一個都沒聽說過。

同樣都是抗爭，兩者所得到的關注之落差卻如此巨大。香港的抗爭，甚至被美國主流媒體例如低級粗俗但台灣人卻很愛引述的 ""時代雜誌"" 給吹捧成彷彿具有什麼不得了的重要價值的民主革命。

但事實上，相對於香港所謂爭取普選的抗爭之高度政治操弄本質，發生在墨西哥的事卻具有實質的重要性，並且造成43名學生竟然被警方綁架失蹤，人們懷疑警方把這些學生交給毒梟處死，於是又引發更大、一波波的抗爭與血腥鎮壓。

這兩天找到二十幾具經過刻意焚燒的亂葬崗屍體，人們以為是那失蹤的43名學生，結果經過 DNA 化驗並不是。

墨西哥這件事，想了解的，可參見底下幾篇報導。我並不是要談這事本身，而只是想說：我們很容易就會受到媒體的影響與操弄。媒體要我們關注什麼，我們就會努力關注；媒體要我們恨誰愛誰，我們就會熱烈地愛恨，非常聽話。難道不是這樣？

就在墨西哥發生這樣離譜血腥事件的同時，美國及西方所謂民主國家，有沒有一個字的譴責或抵制？當然沒有。不但沒有，反倒忙著跟墨西哥政府加強經貿合作呢。這時候怎麼不提民主與人權呢？

總之，我只是要說，與其被主流媒體牽著鼻子走，不如建立起自己的雷達系統，用自己的眼光和方法去形成自己對於世界的看法，或許離血肉真實還比較接近一些。

陳真

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墨亂葬崗屍非學生 43人仍失蹤

法新社 – 2014年10月15日

（法新社墨西哥奇潘辛戈14日電）

43名墨西哥學生9月26日遭與幫派勾結的警察攻擊後失蹤至今；當局今天說，在1處亂葬崗發現的28具屍體無一是這些學生，他們是死是活益發啟人疑竇。

墨西哥檢察總長卡拉姆（Jesus Murillo Karam）宣布，在格瑞羅州（Guerrero）逮捕另14名地方警員，他們被控綁架學生，而後將學生交給販毒集團。

當局在位於墨西哥市南方200公里的伊瓜拉（Iguala）市郊發現其他亂葬崗，挖出不明數量的屍體，卡拉姆提醒說，DNA鑑定結果還沒出爐，但他說：「我們在第1個坑有些（DNA）結果，我可以告訴你，與這些年輕人家屬給我們的DNA並不一致。」

兩名職業殺手告訴調查人員，他們殺害了17名學生，但當局強調，這些都必須等DNA結果定案才能確定。（譯者：中央社鄭詩韻）

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學生疑遭滅口 墨西哥舉國抗爭

台灣醒報 – 2014年10月9日

墨西哥警方疑似勾結幫派，誅殺數十名大學生並棄屍亂葬崗，令舉國群情激憤，數千民眾9日阻街示威。

墨西哥警方疑似勾結幫派，誅殺數十名大學生並棄屍亂葬崗，令舉國群情激憤，數千民眾9日阻街示威。

【台灣醒報記者方家敏綜合報導】

墨西哥警方疑似勾結幫派，誅殺數十名學運人士並棄屍亂葬崗，令舉國群情激憤，數千民眾9日高舉失蹤者頭像阻街示威，要求政府儘快查出真相。

此次由薩帕民族解放運動發起的抗議行動，全國各地民眾也多響應，墨國當局目前已起訴29名嫌犯，其中包括在逃的伊瓜拉警察首長。

墨西哥南部格雷羅州上月26日有師院的實習老師上街爭取教師權益，反對鄉村教師的職場歧視，當時他們乘坐的巴士遭警方與不明人士開槍掃射，造成6人死亡、25人受傷和43名學生失蹤。

墨西哥警方於4日在格雷羅州的伊瓜拉市郊發現大型亂葬崗，6個大坑中堆疊至少28具屍體，多具屍體被燒至焦黑，難以辨識，其中有不少疑似為失蹤的抗議學生。

根據BBC報導，此一事件讓墨西哥民眾群起憤慨，包括墨西哥市、瓦哈卡州、韋拉克魯斯州、莫雷利亞州和格雷羅州，數千位民眾9日上街抗議。示威者和家屬手持失蹤學生的照片、大型標語擋住交通要道，要求警方儘快查出真相，找到失蹤學生，並積極緝凶。

此次示威遊行活動是由墨西哥南端的武裝組織、薩帕民族解放運動（EZLN）所發起，過去組成以土生的印地安人為主，在墨西哥城市地區和國際上擁有不少支持者。EZLN曾為了印第安人的權利而戰，與獨立工會領袖、女性主義者、學生、原住民結盟，如今積極涉入土地正義、自由民主與學生運動等議題。

格雷羅州檢察總長布蘭科5日表示，歹徒行兇動機未明，但已有2名幫派殺手坦承與安全官員合謀殺害17名失蹤學生；當地犯罪集團「勇士國」首領、22名當地警察及逃亡的伊瓜拉市長皆在疑似涉案名單之列。墨國當局目前已起訴29名嫌犯，其中包括在逃的伊瓜拉警察首長。

至於警方當時為何會朝滿載學生的巴士開槍掃射，至今仍不得其解。學生聯盟指出，上個月抗議的學生在離開現場所乘坐的巴士遭襲，但警方卻堅稱抗議學生「挾持」了3輛巴士，其中1輛巴士滿載當地的足球隊員，才會造成多人死傷。有專家則揣測，他們可能被誤認為是其他毒梟派來的人馬。

墨西哥格雷羅州州長瑞維洛表示，伊瓜拉市的警方已被犯罪組織滲透，許多警察都是當地幫派成員。自2007年來已有約10 萬人死於墨西哥毒品幫派的武裝衝突中。

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Missing Mexico students 'not in mass grave'
Mexico's prosecutor says DNA results for first mass grave ""do not correspond"" to missing 43 students in Guerrero state.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

15 Oct 2014 01:54

Protesters asking for a probe into the missing students burned government buildings in Guerrero state [Reuters]

None of the 43 students who had gone missing in Mexico were among the 28 bodies found in the first set of mass graves in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico's attorney general said.

Jesus Murillo Karam said on Tuesday that there was still no sign of the college students who disappeared September 26, after violent incidents blamed on police in the city of Iguala.

""We have some (DNA) results for the first pits and I can tell you that they do not correspond to the DNA that relatives of these young men have given us,"" Murillo told reporters.

At the same time, Karam announced the discovery of another mass grave and that 14 more police officers were
arrested and have confessed to participating in the disappearance. The 14 are from the police force of Cocula, a town neighbouring Iguala.

Authorities have said police involved in ""disappearing"" the students were working in conjunction with a local drug gang.

Al Jazeera's Rachel Levine, reporting from Guerrero state capital Chilpancingo, said that families of the missing students have not been told of the result of the DNA test.

""Families are very frustrated that they are being kept in the dark,"" she said, adding that the families continue to demonstrate outside the Guerrero state government complex.

One forensic expert who works with federal investigators said charred remains like those recovered at the first mass grave sites found outside Iguala can leave very little DNA for testing.

""If a bone is burned at more than 300 degrees, it's almost impossible to identify because the collagen is burned. Because of that, criminal organisations started to adopt that technique."" said Jorge Arturo Talavera, head of the bio-archaeology team at the Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

He said the way the remains are exhumed also can affect identification.

If they are pulled out in a hurried manner, other identifying articles like jewelry or teeth get discarded.

Experts still are testing remains recovered from other mass burial sites found near Iguala, but they have not given information on what was found there.

Police raid

Meanwhile, an alleged leader of that drug gang, Guerreros Unidos, killed himself during a confrontation with Mexican security forces on Tuesday, a day after protesters demanding an investigation into the students' whereabouts burned government buildings in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero.

Federal forces, which include federal police and military personnel, were carrying out an operation to capture Benjamin Mondragon, or ""Benjamon,"" the alleged head of the Guerreros Unidos gang in the neighbouring state of Morelos, when the suspect killed himself.

The official said it was unclear whether Mondragon was involved in the students' disappearances.

The disappearance of the students in Guerrero has triggered massive protests across the country, calling on President Enrique Pena Nieto to find the students, and go after the suspects.

At least one detained gang member has said another Guerreros Unidos leader known as ""El Chucky"" had ordered him to kill 17 students.

In a speech Tuesday, President Enrique Pena Nieto said the disappearances ""are without doubt a topic that will lead the Mexican government at all levels to take actions that will prevent events like those in Iguala from ever occurring again"".

Police are also looking for the mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, in order to question him. His wife's brothers include two deceased top-level members of the gang, which split off from the Beltran Leyva cartel.

The gang controlled drug routes in Guerrero and Morelos, the neighbouring state to the north.