A man identified as a Mexican student on Wednesday interrupted the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech of 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai by holding up a red-stained Mexican flag and imploring the young Pakistani activist to not ignore Mexico.
"Please Malala, don't forget Mexico," the young man is heard saying just as a security guard grabs and escorts him away.
While he does not directly state it in footage of the ceremony, the young man likely interrupted the event in protest over the case of the Ayotzinapa Normal School students believed to have been murdered at the request of local authorities in the Mexican state of Guerrero in September.
Mexican news outlets and social media users identified him as 21-year-old Adán Cortés Salas, a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, in southern Mexico City.
Malala is joint recipient of the award this year, along with Indian children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi.
Yousafzai was targeted for assassination by Taliban mercenaries two years ago. It is believed that she was attacked for advocating equal rights for girls wishing to attend school.
Video at source:
https://news.vice.com/article/mexica...exicos-missing
Update on Ayotzinapa:
The remains of 1 of the 43 missing students were identified a few days ago as Alexander Mora.
Malala is an icon, congrats to her. I low key applaud this guy's effort to bring more attention to what's going on in Mexico as well as his flawless taste in human rights activists.
