March 1, 2002

Mexican Court Orders Probe of 1968 Deaths

By MARION LLOYD

Mexico's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the 1968 massacre of hundreds of student protesters, overturning several earlier court decisions that sought to close the door on one of the ugliest chapters in modern Mexican history.

In a unanimous decision in January, the panel of five justices ordered the federal attorney general's office to determine whether the October 2, 1968, massacre at the Plaza of Three Cultures, in downtown Mexico City, constituted a case of genocide

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