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Thursday, July 1, 2010

1968 massacre: what really happened?

in the summer of 1968 mexico was having some major student movements. the student movements were happening all over the world, including france, germany, italy, czechoslovakia, argentina, japan, and the united states. the students were protesting about how much violence was being usedby the police officers and
military personel. the massacre happened at the tlatelolco housing complex. students were protesting when one of the military snipers shot into the middle of the crowd. then the rest of the officers started shooting, thinking that the students were the one that shot. eyewitnesses say they saw the military dragging bodies off in huge military trucks back to the base. but the government didnt do anything about it. only about forty names have been recovered of the student protestors, and there is still alot they havnt gotten yet.

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