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Bodies Found in Mexico City May Be Victims of 1968 Massacre

After two decades of fear and silence, an architect has come forward to say that at least three bodies that may belong to student protesters killed in a 1968 massacre are buried under a hospital near the massacre site.

The architect, Rosa María Alvarado Martínez, said late Monday that she was forced to keep quiet about the grisly discovery after men identifying themselves as police officers said they would kidnap and kill her son if she went public.

The three bodies were discovered in 1981 as Ms. Alvarado and a construction crew were remodeling a Mexico City hospital that had previously been a vocational school where radical students clashed with the federal police and soldiers.
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