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Skeletons of '68 massacre victims found

09:43 H | Topics: Activism - Controversia - Mexico - Politics

Nearly four decades after the fact, the people of Mexico still feel the weight of the events of October 2, 1968 in their souls. In the years after the Massacre of Tlatelolco -- crowning event in Mexico's own obscure "dirty war" -- the government has made numerous attempts to downplay what happened in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. As student protesters and sympathizers disappeared, rumors of the army having dumped bodies into the ocean were on the lips of many, and families mourned the not so mysterious disappearances of their loved ones.

Nearly a year and a half after Mexico's "dirty war" report was made public comes a new revelation: an architect has come forward to say that she knew of the existence of skeletal remains of 1968 student protesters in the Plaza, where she was working on a project.

Architect Rosa María Alvarado stated that in June of 1981, when working on the remodeling of a hospital in the area, the workers found skulls and skeletal remains of at least two people, but that they received orders to remain silent.

According to her claim, she was silent for 26 years because she was threatened, and decided to break silence because her conscience weighed heavy on her. "If I didn't remain silent they warned me that I wouldn't see my son again, who at that time was three years old," she said.

According to Milenio magazine, an ex-leader of the '68 student movement, Raúl Alvarez Garín, says that the site of the hospital is the former location of Vocational School Number 7, highly involved in the student protests of the time, leading him to believe that the remains are of 1968 protesters.

Alvarez Garín and his group are demanding that the Mexico City prosecutor investigate the case of the remains, which after being discovered in 1981, were covered with cement the very next day.

Via / Milenio

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