From 5:00 p.m. the march for the “Student Martyrs” will take place, this time under the slogan: “Don’t cut my future”.
The mobilization remembers the student martyrs: Bast Maple, the first Uruguayan student martyr who died on August 14, 1968, after being wounded two days before in a demonstration, by a shot from a Police firearm; Then other student martyrs joined, Hugo de los Santos, Susana Pintos, Heber Nieto, Íbero Gutiérrez, Santiago Rodríguez Muela and Julio Spósito, all of them before the coup d’état of June 27, 1973.
During the dictatorship, the following were assassinated: Ramón Peré, Walter Medina, Joaquín Klüver and Nibia Sabalsagaray.
The list was extended in the following years and thousands of students were detained, tortured and persecuted.
Claims
Furthermore, it is a day of struggle for defend and claim a better public education.
Young people from the PIT-CNT emphasize that it is a struggle that cuts across the entire popular field.
They also indicate that “the dismantling of the education of the people is defended with organization and struggle.”
