What I can see

At the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where students expressed their support to the students of the National Technical University of Athens, a dedicatory metal plaque is placed on a concrete wall. It is dedicated to the dead from the junta, during the November 1973 events at the Technical University of Athens.

What I can't see

Having the junta been shocked by a mutiny from the side of the Greek Navy and following the severe crackdown of several students’ movements (due to compulsory conscription of dissident students), in November 14th 1973, a wrong tip at the Law School of the University of Athens, regarding street conflicts around the Technical University, brought there 300 students. Conflicts with gathered police forces led to a noticeable coiling of people at the nearby areas and eventually the complex’s sit-in by the protesters. In November 16th 1973, the first casualties were recorded and at the dawn of the November 17th the army was ordered to interfere and tanks forced their way into the complex’s front yard. Certain students were shot during their panic-stricken egression, while others found shelter inside neighbouring buildings. The ascertained casualties were 24 dead people. The Polytechnic uprising led to regime’s reshuffling and lurching and it totally collapsed a few months later, when Turkiye invaded Cyprus.

 

The invasion of the tank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk2T6uNC8QA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fbonflaneur.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

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