Tlatelolco Massacre Research Paper

On the evening of October 2,1968 in Tlatelolco, Mexico located the at La Plaza de Tres Culturas the mexican police forces along with army squads had opened fire at a student demonstration along with residents. Which had led to the streets of Mexico being plagued baths of blood and bodies littering the Plaza floor as others tried to escape the firestorm of bullets raining upon the protestors. The tally of death had been marked by the government as four dead , twenty wounded , whilst many eye-witnesses claimed hundreds were dead; the few protesters that had managed to escape were arrested. An estimate of one thousand protesters were arrested by police forces and military troops, the act of ultraviolence had put an extent shock around the government upon hearing acts of violence. The Tlatelolco massacre is not labeled as a ,“genocide” for it’s events have not shown many of the stages of a genocide, the events shadows a rebellion that grew and was shortly eliminated so the government could still remain in power. The behavior of the mexican government in 1968 was a very closed democracy which the people of mexico wanted a more open
democracy. The students of Mexico were inspired by the student led- uprising in France, ( May- June 1968) which inspired the students to “try” and bring more open -democracy to Mexico. Along with the summer-olympics coming along the students had took the time to pressure the Government, President Gustavo along with The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

The Tlatelolco massacre was the reaction of the mexican government to abolish a student -led protest for a more open democracy in Mexico.
While within Rwanda Tutsi were being killed by the Majority group of Hutu by government call. The Rwandan genocide was the performance of the Hutu group carrying out the mass murder of the Tutsi people, in which were slain by the most primary weapon, a machete. The Hutu government had provided many resources to make the mass murders successful the government provided arms, had planned the mass killing spree of the Tutsi minority , and had leadership over the militias. The Hutu were given power and became the, Majority, while the Tutsi were suffering as the minorities and had no say unless they wanted to face death straight in the face with their “once called neighbors.” While , in Mexico in 1968
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Whilst, the Tlatelolco massacre is not labeled as a genocide, the mexican government had displayed an interesting act. The mexican government illustrated the last stage of a genocide, denial, For years the mexican government has been covering their tracks on the massacre, denying the public basic facts on what happened on Oct 2nd, 1968. Mexico’s government refuses to open any documents between the army and police forces as it’s a probe on “national security.” Abundant of scholars, historians, agents of the state, had been denied or still trying to uncover the secrets of 1968 but the vaults of Mexico’s archive of fully understanding what had actually happened remain close even to present day despite unclear documents between the U.S and Mexico on the situation.