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[–]pomofundies 0 points1 point


There are political reasons why we might not have reported on such a thing compared to Chinese actions:

  1. The Cold War had a huge effect on who we viewed as enemies and how we viewed their government actions.
  2. It was also right before the Summer Olympics in Mexico that year. It would be very unfortunate timing for a large amount of people.
  3. The official line from the Mexican government was that the students fired upon them first, but documents were recently declassified in 2000 that revealed that the snipers were in fact hired by the police.