(11 Jun 2021) Mexican officials and protesters on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of a June 10, 1971, massacre of student protesters that was depicted in the 2018 Oscar-winning movie "Roma."
Demanding punishment for those involved, demonstrators marched down the same boulevard in Mexico City where students were attacked with guns and clubs by government-organized thugs 50 years ago.
Among the march on Thursday was Rodolfo Col, himself a survivor of the massacre.
The students set out from a teacher's college just west of the city center in 1971 for one of the first large-scale protests since hundreds of demonstrators were killed in a far larger massacre in 1968.
They didn't get more than a few blocks before they were set upon by plainclothes thugs.
According to official figures, the massacre left at least 22 dead, many missing and around fifty wounded, but civil organizations put the figure at 60 dead and dozens missing.
The prospects for punishment five decades later are slim.
In July 2005, a judge exonerated Luis Echeverria, who was president from 1970 to 1976, on genocide charges stemming from the 1971 student massacre.
In that case, the judge ruled that Echeverria may have been responsible for homicide, but could not be tried because the statute of limitations for that crime expired in 1985.
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