Word: tlatelolco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING of October 2, in the Plaza Tlatelolco, in the center of a huge low-rent housing project in Mexico City, 1000 soldiers opened fire with machine guns and rifles on a crowd of 10,000 demonstrators, who had been hemmed into the plaza only minutes before. At least 49 demonstrators were killed, hundreds injured. The Mexican Defense Minister claimed that the firing was in response to sniping by students, yet, according to official counts, only one soldier was killed and seven hurt during a week of rioting...