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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Thousands march through Athens to mark 50 years since a student uprising was crushed by dictatorship

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More than 25,000 people marched through central Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973.

The demonstration was peaceful, although minor rioting broke out at a university campus in another part of the capital after a few dozen youths set fires to dumpsters and threw petrol bombs at police who appeared on the scene.

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