The Mexican phrase "Ya me canse" which means "Enough, I'm tired," trended on social media sites as hashtag on Friday and continues to trend over the weekend. Uttered by Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, the remark became a rallying point for Mexicans' indignation over the death of 43 missing university students.

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Karam said the phrase to stop the live televised press conference where he announced that two suspects in the murder of the students led investigators to trash bags which likely held the burnt corpses of the students who were missing on Sept. 26.

Mexicans found in the hashtag and posts that went with their comments a venue to air their grievances at the country's government and politicians viewed as corrupt and useless in addressing the nation's lingering and rising criminality mainly due to the thriving illegal drug trade.

Here are some samples of social media posts that went with the hashtag #YaMeCanse, quoted by CBC.

"Enough, I'm tired of corrupt politicians," one wrote, while another posted, "Enough, I'm tired of living in a narco state." A commenter hit back at the attorney general, writing, "Enough, I'm tired of Murillo Karam," and one issued this challenge to the AG: "If you're tired, why don't you resign?"

Beyond waging war on social media, 300 masked student gathered at the Guerrero government office in Chilpancingo and razed several cars and lobbed firebombs on Saturday. Their protest caused smashed windows and 10 burnt vehicles, including trucks and a national police car.

According to investigators, Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his spouse, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, told local police to confront the students who came to Iguala aboard a commandeered bus to raise funds. The couple ordered the police to stop the students because they were afraid that the students would cause trouble at an event led by Pineda Villa.

After firing at the students in two separate incidents, which resulted in the death of six people, the police allegedly endorsed the 43 detained students to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, said to have links to the mayor's wife.

So far, authorities have arrested 74 people, including Abarca and Pineda Villa, who hid in an old house in Mexico City and were apprehended on Tuesday.

Karam said at the press conference that the three gang members admitted that the police turned over the students to them, and that they killed and burned the bodies of the students. However, the parents of the 43 students seek DNA tests by independent forensic experts from Argentina to confirm if the charred remains are that of their missing children.

But Karam forewarned the parents that "The high level of degradation cause by the fire in the remains make it very difficult to extract the DNA that will allow such an identification." He said the government will nevertheless submit the ashes to a specialized laboratory in Austria to attempt to identify the remains.

The AG showed in the press conference the video of the Guerrero Unidos members admitting the crime and a second footage of burnt fragments of bones and teeth thrown along the San Juan River in the next town of Cocula.

According to the cartel members, they piled the bodies of the students on a pyre that burned for 15 hours. They then ground the charred remains to ashes, placed them inside plastic bags and threw the remaining bones and teeth.

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