英國學者、微生物學家、聯合國武器專家Dr. David Kelly,在多番研究考證後,決定刊文指明伊拉克藏有大規模殺傷性武器(WMD)的說法為英美有意捏造。然而他在刊文前卻巧合地死於英國一片樹林中(2003年),享年59歲。首相Tony Blair反應迅速地組成調查組Hutton Inquiry,並在5個月後推出調查報告,指其為自殺,警方支持此一說法。
The massacre was preceded by months of political unrest in the Mexican capital, echoing student demonstrations and riots all over the world during 1968. The students wanted to harness the attention focused on Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics. The students demanded:[1]
Repeal of Articles 145 and 145b of the Penal Code (which sanctioned imprisonment of anyone attending meetings of three or more people, deemed to threaten public order).
The abolition of granaderos (the tactical police corps).
Freedom for political prisoners.
The dismissal of the chief of police and his deputy.
The identification of officials responsible for the bloodshed from previous government repressions (July and August meetings).
Thirty years after the massacre, the Mexican government continues to deny its people basic facts about what happened -- refusing to open Army and police records to public scrutiny on the grounds of "national security," denying Congress the right to hear testimony by agents of the state who were present at Tlatelolco. The valiant investigative efforts by reporters, scholars, historians, and an official congressional committee have helped clarify the events of 1968 enormously. But Mexico's secret archives are also critical for a full understanding of Tlatelolco -- and until they are opened, doubts about the truth of the Tlatelolco massacre will linger on.
墨西哥政府仍以國家安全為由,拒絕公開當年軍警的紀錄,並拒絕國會聽取證人所提供的證供!
墨西哥城大屠殺與美國的關係
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In October 2003, the role of the U.S. government in the massacre was publicized when the National Security Archive at George Washington University published a series of records from the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI and the White House which were released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Stele dedicated to the remembrance of massacred students.
The documents detail:
• That in response to Mexican government concerns over the security of the Olympic Games the Pentagon sent military radios, weapons, ammunition and riot control training material to Mexico before and during the crisis.
• That the CIA station in Mexico City produced almost daily reports concerning developments within the university community and the Mexican government from July to October. Six days before the massacre at Tlatelolco, both Echeverría and head of Federal Security (DFS) Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios told the CIA that "the situation will be under complete control very shortly".
• That the Díaz Ordaz government "arranged" to have student leader Sócrates Campos Lemus accuse dissident PRI politicians such as Carlos Madrazo of funding and orchestrating the student movement.
In 1993, in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the events, a stele was dedicated with the names of few of the students and persons who lost their lives during the event.