October 2 1968 The Tlatelolco Massacre

interesting...

[link to www.mexconnect.com]

'The student rebellion even spread into very respectable sections of middle-class people in Mexico City. On August 28, after a huge and unruly demonstration in the central Zócalo Plaza--up till then considered sacred turf reserved for PRI mobilizations--the government said that national symbols had been "insulted." Thousands of bureaucrats and government office employees were herded onto buses and taken to the Zócalo for a ceremony to "right the wrong." The government expected these government employees to be their most loyal followers. But hundreds began to bleat loudly: "Baa...we don't want to go, we're sheep...Baa!" '

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

[link to www.gwu.edu]

Former president Luis Echevarria was declared not responsible of a genocide because he only kill students of different background and not member of one ethnic group.

Still Secret
Although the United States government has declassified dozens of documents on the massacre of Tlatelolco from the secret archives of the CIA, State Department, Pentagon, FBI and White House, certain key records remain classified and inaccessible to the public.

-- Declassified White House documents indicate that the CIA produced an analysis based on intelligence reports two days after the Tlatelolco massacre took place. Dated October 4, the document is called "Mexico's Student Crisis." It has not yet been made public.

-- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also produced a report on October 4 which, according to a formerly-secret telegram from the State Department dated October 7, "attributed outbreak [of violence in Tlatelolco] to confusion between army and security agents." This would contradict the Mexican government's official story that armed student snipers were responsible for the shooting on October 2. The report has not been made public.

-- No document written by the U.S. Embassy's Legal Attaché - who served as the FBI's representative in Mexico - has been declassified and made public.

-- In a November 1 letter written by the State Department's Mexican Affairs Director, Maxwell Chaplin, to U.S. Embassy Chargé Henry Dearborn, Chaplin points out the "intense interest of the Washington intelligence community" in Mexico and mentions a CIA document that has never been made public: a "pessimistic and controversial" memorandum "on the implications for Mexican political stability of the student disorders."

-- The CIA published a secret special report on Mexico on January 17, 1969, titled "Challenges to Mexico's Single-Party Rule." A large portion of the document is dedicated to the student protests and the government's reaction, including the clash at Tlatelolco. The agency released a heavily-excised version of the report on March 2002; most of the document remains secret.

-- Finally, not one document declassified by the U.S. government discusses at any length evidence that government agents operating as snipers from the windows of the Tlatelolco apartment complex may have initiated the massacre of October 2. The Defense Intelligence Agency in particular - which had defense attachés gathering intelligence on the Mexican military at the time - should have produced internal cables, memoranda and analyses discussing the presence of government snipers.