Sentences with phrase «statement after the massacre»

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Thus, in 1968, after the Mexican army had fired on a student demonstration and killed a large number of people in the so - called Tlatelolco massacre, Méndez read a statement from the pulpit of his cathedral condemning the government for this act.

The 1819 poem was written after the Peterloo Massacre of that year and is thought to be the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance.

We wait for emotion to die down, for public attention to focus elsewhere, and then we wait for the next horrible, unspeakable tragedy; children and teachers massacred at school,» said Felder (D - Borough Park - Midwood), who issued a statement the day after the shooting.