36 YEARS AGO: STUDENTS' UPRISING
June Samaras
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Events commemorating the anniversary of the most significant protest against the seven-year dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 culminate today with the annual march to the American Embassy, as USA is thought to have laid support to the military regime. Thirty-six years ago, thousands of students barricaded themselves for over two days inside the university (see picture), where they set up a radio station and asked for "Bread, Education and Freedom." Sadly enough, dozens of them died when the junta sent in tanks to put down the revolt, yet that proved to be the beginning of the end for the dictatorship. In a message marking the anniversary, the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias stressed that we commemorate an uprising that was "a point of reference" for all Greeks, "a reason for collective self-respect and conviction that light can emerge from darkness."
National Technical University of Athens: Contribution in History of Modern Greece Foundation of the Hellenic World: Contemporary Greece (1945-2000) Secretariat General of Information: About Greece- The History of Modern Greece |
The
three-day celebrations marking the 36th anniversary of the November 17
students' uprising at the National Technical University of Athens
(Athens Polytechnic) began on Sunday, November 15. 
Prime
Minister George Papandreou laid a wreath yesterday morning at the
monument of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, paying tribute to the
memory of all those who fought against the dictatorship. 
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June Samaras
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