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 Editorials | Issues | July 2007 
Mexico: Bodies From 1968 Maybe Found
 Associated Press
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 |  | They told me that if I didn't keep quiet I would never again see my son, who was 3 years old at the time.
- Rosa Maria Alvarado Martinez |  | | The bodies of several student protesters gunned down by police in a massacre four decades ago may be buried under a Mexico City hospital, according to an architect who helped renovate the building.
Rosa Maria Alvarado Martinez said that police had threatened her not to come forward in 1981 after human remains and a bullet were found at General Hospital 27, which she was helping renovate.
"They told me that if I didn't keep quiet I would never again see my son, who was 3 years old at the time," Alvarado told a news conference on Monday.
Alvarado said she has filed a legal complaint asking federal prosecutors to investigate the remains, which she said were reburied in the foundation.
The hospital is adjacent to the capital's Tlatelolco Plaza, where in 1968 police opened fired on a huge student demonstration. Decades-old official reports say 25 people were killed, but human rights activists say there were as many as 350 victims.
Charges in the massacre have been brought against several former officials including ex-President Luis Echeverria, who was interior secretary at the time. He is currently under house arrest. |
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