Relatives of Diego Morales Ham, 11 years old, who was killed last Monday, as well as residents of the municipality of Yautepec, protested in the main square of this municipal capital to demand justice for the murder of the minor.
The demonstration was with the coffin of the student of the Miguel Hidalgo school, who last Monday went with his mother to buy tortillas, but became a collateral victim, as they passed near the Tlahuica boulevard, where hitmen killed an adult man who responded to the name of Jorge Olegario.
The father of the minor mentioned that on Monday his son won a contest for a drawing for Peace in his elementary school on the morning of that same Monday. He remembered crying when his son and other classmates from his school sang: “Let the children sing,” and he sang a fragment between sobs: “I sing so that they let me live,” he said, moving those present. But 8 hours later, around 5 p.m. that same day, he was notified by phone that his son had lost his life “by a stray bullet.”
“We don’t want more political parties! Enough of hugs and kisses for criminals. Today it was my 11-year-old son, tomorrow it could be you,” he claimed.
“We want Justice,” said a banner that the minor’s relatives hung in the kiosk of this municipal capital. The minor’s coffin was in front of the banner. Around the kiosk were all the people who accompanied the parents of this minor, to make this demonstration, and later to go bury him at the cemetery of the municipality.
The protesters carried flowers and white balloons to ask for peace and justice in this case, and for the murders in the state and the country to stop.
The father of the minor criticized that the people, mostly young, instead of helping and assisting, hugging or accompanying the mother of the minor, since the child died in her arms while bleeding from the bullet that hit his jaw, recorded her, without accompanying her or sympathizing with her pain and tears.
The funeral procession marched down the streets of Yautepec
Around 10 a.m., the funeral procession and march left Diego’s house in the Huizachera neighborhood, heading to Miguel Hidalgo Elementary School, where the minor was in his sixth year. At the school, Diego’s classmates waited for him and said goodbye with hundreds of white balloons that they released into the sky while the roll call was being made to say goodbye to him.
After the tribute to the body by the teachers and students of the primary school, the contingent left with the coffin towards the main square, where they held this protest.
At the rally, Diego’s father, Arturo, demanded justice from the FGE and an end to insecurity in Yautepec and the state of Morelos.
Source: La Jornada
