New York, Mar 22 (EFE).- Felipe de la Cruz, the father of one of the survivors of an attack on a group of education students in southern Mexico last year, made a presentation on the case this weekend to the U.S. branch of Amnesty International.

The students’ families consider it essential that the human rights organization “know the facts” so it can make recommendations that will help the victims’ cause, De la Cruz told Efe.

De la Cruz’s appearance on Saturday before Amnesty International was part of the “Caravana 43,” a tour of 43 U.S. cities over a month to drum up support for an investigation to determine what really happened to the 43 education students who disappeared in the city of Iguala last September.

The victims’ families welcome “the strong support we are getting in New York from Mexicans and Latinos,” as well as from people of “different nationalities who have lived through similar things” and offered their backing, De la Cruz said.

A demonstration is planned on Sunday in Manhattan’s Union Square to inform the public about the case.

The victims’ parents are trying to set up a presentation to the United Nations, but the format and date have not been determined, De la Cruz said.

Dozens of suspects, including police officers and public officials, have been arrested in connection with the events in Iguala on the night of Sept. 26, when municipal police fired gunshots at students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, a nearby teacher-training facility.

Six people died that night, 25 were wounded and 43 students were detained by police and then handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

Three suspects in the case – Patricio Reyes, Jhonatan Osorio and Agustin Garcia – confessed to having killed the students and burned their bodies.

Reyes, Osorio and Garcia told investigators they took the 43 students to the Cocula dump and set them on fire.

Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said in a press conference on Jan. 27 that there was sufficient scientific evidence to conclude that the students were murdered and their bodies burned by Guerreros Unidos drug cartel members at the dump in Cocula, with the ashes dumped in the San Juan River.

The Guerreros Unidos gang mistook the students for members of the Los Rojos cartel, Murillo Karam, who left office on Feb. 26, said. EFE