(3 Oct 2003) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of protesters confronting riot police forces
2. Medium shot of students throwing rocks at the police
3. Medium shot of local police chief taking a suspect into custody
4. Wide shot of students trying to break into a building, breaking its doors
5. Medium shot of cameraman finding his way through tear gases
6. Close up of broken glass and protestors in background
7. Wide shot of police helicopter patrolling the zone and protesters
8. Medium shot of police line taking position at Senate building
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriel Regino, deputy chief of police, Mexico City:
"We have acted to preserve the integrity of the installations of this facility, we have arrested two of the authors of the aggressions and at the moment the force is totally deployed. We are only taking action against this groups of vandals."
10. Wide shot of marchers throwing rocks at police line
11. Medium shot of student using a slingshot to attack the police guarding the "Secretaria de Gobernacion" building
12. Medium shot of police line
STORYLINE
Several thousand students and political activists marched through downtown Mexico City on Thursday to mark the 35th anniversary of the October 2, 1968 massacre of student protesters in the city's Tlatelolco plaza.
About 15-thousand people gathered in the Tlatelolco plaza and then marched about one and a half miles (two point two kilometres) to the city's main square, chanting "October 2 will never be forgotten".
Violence erupted when small groups of protesters separated from the main march and smashed dozens of store windows, battered cars, spray-painted slogans on walls and tossed rocks and bottles at police.
Police arrested 75 people, including 50 youths under the age 18, on suspicion of robbery, assault and property damage.
The main body of protesters carried banners demanding President Vicente Fox bring to justice those responsible for the massacre, in which snipers and army troops fired on a pro-democracy student demonstration.
Whilst the government has never released firm figures on those killed, estimates range from 38 to several hundred people.
Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered flags flown at half-mast to commemorate the killings.
Once-secret government files obtained by the Associated Press indicate the massacre was touched off when snipers under the command of the Mexican government fired into the crowd.
At least 360 government gunmen were present, according to documents.
Government officials at the time said armed dissidents provoked the deadly clash by firing on police during a protest against Mexico's lack of democracy.
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