Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a state commission report which maintained that the Attica deaths were all the results of police fire, no indictment has been returned against any state trooper or the people who commanded them--the governor and prison officials. Instead, 60 prisoners involved in the revolt stand charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the protest and police massacre...
...aftermath of the Attica rebellion has only reaffirmed the justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
...Papadopoulos regime started an extensive campaign in the press against the people of Athens, Thessaloniki and Patra who had participated in the revolt. They had to scare the population once more with threats of an impending communist revolt, they had to consolidate their hold on the armed forces and they had to polish the tarnished "stability...
...head of military police, is the most powerful left-over from the previous regime. Ioanides, who has established a reputation for toughness and viciousness, is a man who believes that democracy is either a luxury or a disaster for the Greek people. His faction believes that the student-led revolt was a demonstration of immaturity and that it contained the seeds of anarchy...
...reality, the revolt was the only resort of the oppressed students of Greece, and as such was not only an expression of political maturity, but it was also the legitimate expression of popular dissatisfaction with the dictatorial regime...