Congeries of cross connected concepts
A judge in Mexico has issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Luis Echeverria on genocide charges.
Mr Echeverria was interior minister in 1968 at the time of the killings in Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City.
Human rights activists say up to 300 people were killed in the shootings, although officials said the death toll was just 30.
Mr Echeverria denies allegations that he posted snipers on scores of buildings and gave orders to shoot anti-government protesters, and disputes that the deaths on 2 October 1968 constitute genocide. [emphasis added]
Not to discuss Echeverria’s guilt, innocence, or the appropriateness of the shootings, but how could it be that Echeverria has to deny the incidient was genocide? Is the term now the equivalent of fascist, meaning only “politically incorrect killings”?
