Greek Students March to US Embassy in AthensThousands of Greek students marched to the US embassy in Athens late Friday to protest against US support for the military junta which ruled Greece from 1967 to 1973.With a heavy police presence, the students held a US flag daubed with swastikas instead of stars and shouted anti-American and anti-imperialist slogans. In a statement made in front of the US embassy, a female medical student said that the heightening of anti-Americanism showed that the Greek people would always struggle against the war of American, European and Greek imperialism. All streets from where the march passed were heavily guarded by police, and streets close to the demonstrators' route to the US embassy were closed to traffic. The march ended with the clash between members of the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement's youth organization and other youths. The ruling party denounced in an announcement the attack with stones and sticks against members of the party's youth organization. On November 17, 1973, the then military junta ordered troops to crush a student uprising in the Athens Polytechnic and killed a number of protesters. Greek students also made a similar march to the US Consulate in the northern city of Thessaloniki late Friday. |
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