Mexico: Scuffles break out as relatives of killed or missing met with counter-protest

W/S Demonstrators taking part in 'March for peace', Mexico City
M/S Protesters hold pictures of missing relatives
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters with banners
C/U Protester with banners
SOT, Julian Lebaron, relative murder victims (Spanish): "He [the president] has enormous authority but if he can't use that authority to defend life and legislators can't use that authority to defend life and judges can't use that authority to defend life at some point citizens have to assume a responsibility because life is defended and that is today's call."
C/U Protester with banner
M/S Security officers
M/S Protesters holding banners
SOT, Julian Lebaron, relative of murder victims (Spanish): "Well, I would say, look at my cousins. They were killed by 3,500 gunshots and they were burned after that. If that is not terrorism, then please let someone give us another definition of what is happening In Guanajuato. We are seeing it every day and every time we are dehumanised more."
W/S Protesters marching
C/U Protester with banners
SOT, Concepcion Guzman, relative of murder victims (Spanish): "[We want] that the president sees the pain that we are experiencing as family members, that for a moment he sees our pain, what we are suffering as a family because we have children."
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters chanting (Spanish): " Peace, true, justice."
M/S Peace activist Javier Sicilia
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters take one shoe off
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
C/U Julian Lebaron during march
C/U Protester without one shoe
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protester holding shoe in the air
M/S Protesters march without one shoe
W/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters holds shoes in the air
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters hold banners
M/S Protesters hold pictures of missing relatives
M/S Protesters hold pictures of missing relatives
C/U Protester with banner
M/S Protesters hold pictures of missing relatives
M/S Protesters marching
W/S Protesters marching
SOT, Javier Sicilia, activist (Spanish): "Our house, Mexico and the flag that represents it now and that we have brought with us throughout these days of long walking resembles the house of Mercedes Carranza full of violence, blood, death, disappearances, graves, lies and impunity. It is plagued by heinous crimes against which language fails [to be enough]."
W/S Speech during protest
M/S Protesters met by pro-government counter-protest
W/S Protesters scuffle with pro-government counter-protest
W/S Pro-government counter-protesters chant: "Obrador, Obrador."
W/S Protesters scuffle with pro-government counter-protest
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A four-day peace march by family members of murdered or missing Mexicans ended in confrontations with government supporters in Mexico City on Sunday.
The march led by activist Javier Sicilia departed from Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos on Thursday.
Participants walked in silence as they held pictures of their dead and missing relatives and anti-violence banners.
Some of them removed one shoe to honour Mackenzi Langford, the 9-year-old survivor who walked for 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) without a shoe in search for help after a massacre in Chihuahua state last November.
"[if the government] can't use that authority to defend life at some point citizens have to assume a responsibility because life is defended and that is today's call," said Julian Lebaron, a relative of the victims.
Upon arrival at Mexico City's Zocalo square, the protesters were met by government supporters.
Nearly 35,000 homicides were registered in Mexico last year, making it the most violent year in the country's history.