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Families of 43 missing Mexican students demand new internationally supervised investigation

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    Felipe de la Cruz, left, the father of one of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teacher's college, listens to a relative of the missing during a conference after a meeting with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. Pena Nieto told the families that he would create a new special prosecutor for all of the country's thousands of missing people. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (The Associated Press)

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    Relatives of of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teacher's college, hold up their fists during a press conference after a meeting with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. Pena Nieto told the families that he would create a new special prosecutor for all of the country's thousands of missing people. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (The Associated Press)

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    Relatives of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teacher's college, give a press conference after a meeting with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. Days ahead of the one year anniversary of the Ayotzinapa students' disappearance on Sept. 26, 2014, parents and relatives started the protest fast. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (The Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY – The families of 43 students who disappeared a year ago in southern Mexico have given a letter to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto demanding a new internationally supervised investigation.

The human rights organization Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez says the letter was given to the president Thursday and has released a copy.

The letter lays out eight demands, most notably that the students' disappearance be reinvestigated with international supervision. It also calls for an investigation of those responsible for the initial investigation, which the families considered a sham.

The students disappeared Sept. 26, 2014, in the city of Iguala. The government has said local police illegally detained the students and then turned them over to the local drug gang Guerreros Unidos, which then allegedly killed them and incinerated their remains.