CDMX.- The October 2nd commemorates the massacre of hundreds of people, mostly students, who attended the rally called by the National Strike Committee in the Plaza of the Three Cultures, in Tlatelolco.
In their social networks, the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, wrote the legend: October 2 is not forgotten.
On October 2, 1968, in Mexico City, a terrible massacre occurred in Tlatelolco, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, causing the death of more than 300 people.
The National Human Rights Commission remembers it as the brutal culmination of crimes that could be considered against humanity, perpetrated by the Mexican government against students throughout that year, characterized by massive, arbitrary and illegal arrests. that were made during this period.
And for the detailed planning and high degree of training of the repressive forces that participated in the events.
The CNDH points out that the massacre was committed by the Mexican Army and the Olimpia Battalion paramilitary group against a peaceful demonstration.
The presence of this battalion at the scene of the events was initially denied by the president Gustavo Diaz Ordazalluding that its function was to guard the facilities for the Olympic Games.
That day, the army and the Olimpia Battalion, identified as wearing a white glove, launched “Operation Galeana” in order to arrest the members of the National Strike Council, a collegiate management body created on August 2, 1968 by striking school members.
Especially by students from the UNAM, the IPN, the College of Mexico, the Chapingo School of Agriculture, the Ibero-American University, the La Salle University, the Normal School for Teachers, the National School of Anthropology and History, and other universities in the interior of the republic.
That day, thousands of people gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, where the army also arrived under the pretext of monitoring security, fearing any dispute or quarrel.
The members of the Olimpia Battalion dressed as civilians and wore a white glove or handkerchief on their left hand to identify themselves.
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His objective was to infiltrate that demonstration and reach the Chihuahua building, where the movement’s speakers and several journalists were.
Minutes before 6 pm on October 2, when the rally was almost over, a helicopter began to fly over the square.
Flares were the signal for the Olympia Battalion snipers to begin opening fire on the assembled people; students, mothers, children, teachers, workers.
In the midst of the chaos, the entire civilian population gathered there ran through the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and the surroundings of the Chihuahua building, trying to protect themselves.
The official death toll from the massacre rose to 30. Hospitals reported 53 serious injuries; it was estimated that the number of detainees in Military Camp Number One reached two thousand.
However, over the years, various testimonies, access to files and files on that movement, the figures proved to be different, says the CNDH.
The report of the Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the Past, released in 2006, mentioned that it is not possible to give an exact figure, although in its report it stated around 350 deaths.
March for October 2
The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City will carry out a security and traffic device before the march on the occasion of the Commemoration of the 54th Anniversary of October 02, which will take place this Sunday.
SSC officers will be strategically distributed along the route, which will depart from the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolcotowards Eje 2 Norte Manuel González, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, followed by Calle 5 de Mayo, until you reach the Plaza de la Constituciónin the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office.
In order to avoid the alteration of public order, as well as the commission of criminal acts, the uniformed officers will accompany the protesters, in addition to guaranteeing the safety of the general public, the agency pointed out.
Elements of the Undersecretariat for Traffic Control will carry out staggered roadblocks during the passage of the contingent in order to guarantee mobility on the planned routes.
To avoid affectations for motorists circulating in the area, the SSC offers the following road alternatives:
• Avenue of the Insurgentes
• Inner Circuit
• Avenida Congreso de la Unión -Axis 2 East-
• Axis 1 East
• Chapultepec Avenue
• Doctor Rio de la Loza
• Jose Maria Izazaga
• Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The SSC invites you to consider the following recommendations for those who wish to travel through the affected area:
• Anticipate departure on time
• Plan travel routes
• Identify alternative routes to the usual
• Consider the use of public transportation
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