la matanza de los estudiantes en 68

[bluerev002]

Has anyone ever heard of this? It happend in Mexico I think...

[Hampton]

(AP) A massacre of student protesters 35 years ago was touched off when at least 360 snipers under government command fired into the crowd, according to once-secret government files obtained by The Associated Press.

Government officials at the time said armed dissidents provoked the deadly confrontation on Oct. 2, 1968 — 10 days before the start of the Olympics hosted by Mexico — by firing on police during a protest against Mexico's lack of democracy. Estimates on the number of people killed range from 38 to several hundred.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/01/...ain576109.shtml (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/01/world/main576109.shtml)
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Declassified Mexican files show that 360 undercover government snipers fired into a student demonstration in the Tlatelolco housing project in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, probably triggering the notorious massacre there in which dozens and maybe hundreds of protesters died. While officials have denied involvement in the incident, the documents reveal that some of the snipers made their base in the Tlatelolco apartment of Rebeca Zuno de Lima, a sister-in-law of then-governance secretary Luis Echeverría Alvarez, later president of Mexico (1970-1976). Also on the scene was U.S.-trained artillery officer Manuel Díaz Escobar, who had organized a unit of agents provocateurs known as the “Halcones” (Falcons) that carried out another bloody attack on student protesters in 1971.

http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20031005_...68_massacre.asp (http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20031005_government_sparked_68_massacre.asp)

[bluerev002]

Two in a row! Thanks dude!

[Hampton]

Google is my homeboy.

[FistFullOfSteel]

i have heard of this.

[bluerev002]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2003, 04:53 AM
i have heard of this.
Really? And what do you thiink of this?

I would like soem imput of this from you guys not just "oh yeah, it was bad, terrible" ;)

[Hampton]

I think it's pretty sick anytime you have a government killing its own people for something like protesting, espically in a situation like that. There was so many people and snipers and other firing from above is like shooting fiash in a barell. You can see the kind of people the US trains too, Manuel Díaz Escobar organized a unit who attacked some students in 1971, then later was a close friend of Pinochet.

I'm not sure if anyone was put in jail for this either...kinda reminds you of Kent State on a much bigger level.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

Hampton,

Yeah... so much for "Freedom of Speech" in this American "democracy"... you protest, we shoot you...

Kent St. was not even the only shooting against Vietnam protestors. There was another protest at Jackson St. (within a week of Kent, I believe) where two more protestors were shot to death.

Of course, atrocities against Americans pale in comparison to crimes committed by the U.S. or its puppets overseas...

[FistFullOfSteel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2003, 03:19 AM
I think it's pretty sick anytime you have a government killing its own people for something like protesting, espically in a situation like that. There was so many people and snipers and other firing from above is like shooting fiash in a barell. You can see the kind of people the US trains too, Manuel Díaz Escobar organized a unit who attacked some students in 1971, then later was a close friend of Pinochet.

I'm not sure if anyone was put in jail for this either...kinda reminds you of Kent State on a much bigger level.
why do u think they go in jail..they lick goverments ass... :angry: