Ezeiza massacre
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 136 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5122-7086-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ezeiza massacre took place on June 20, 1973 near the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Peronist masses, including many young people, had gathered there to acclaim Juan Peron's definitive return from an 18-year exile in Spain. The police counted three and a half million people. In his plane, Peron was accompanied by El Tio ("Uncle") president Hector Campora, representative of the Peronists' left wing, who had come to power on May 25, 1973, amid popular euphoria and a period of political turmoil. Campora was opposed to the Peronist right wing, declaring during his first speech that "the spilled blood will not be negotiated" . However, from Peron's platform, camouflaged snipers from the right-wing of Peronism opened fire on the crowd. The left-wing Peronist Youth and the Montoneros were targeted and trapped. At least 13 bodies were subsequently identified, and 365 were injured during the massacre . According to Clarin...