by Daniel Hernandez / Intersections / October 2, 2008
Forty years ago today the Mexican government opened fire indiscriminately on a crowd of peaceful protesters at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, killing still-unknown numbers of students, bystanders, and demonstrators. The operation was a brutal smashing of the grassroots movement for social reform that had swept across Mexico and the world in that turbulent year, 1968.
October 2 is a date that forever remains a dark mark on the Mexican calendar and the Mexican psyche. Its significance in the country’s history has been finally recognized with a permanent exhibit and UNAM cultural center at the former foreign relations ministry complex near the plaza. Today there are marches planned by the Comite 68, survivors who are still seeking justice, and by various student and youth groups from the Tlatelolco plaza, to the Zocalo.
GO HERE FOR EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS.
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everything that happened is there and there is enough evidence and they still say that nothing happened. what else do they want to lie about? do they still want to lie to us after we see every thing that really happened
The government was very wrong and unjust. They are cowards to deny the pain they inflicted. PEOPLE NEEDE JUSTICE!!!!!
I was born on that very day, October 2, 1968.
Thanks for the images- very helpful.
My birthday is on Oct. 2 but in 2000 did this really happen to then people I feel sad for her people