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Thanks for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. We're going back 56 years to a deadly government crackdown in Mexico City.

In 2011, Hulian Meeliorini spoke to a student protester who was there.

It's October 1968.

Ten days before the Olympic Games, students are demonstrating in Latello Square in Mexico City.

Suddenly, gunfire erupts. The military just surrounded the square, it was an oblong really, and there were gaps in it.

And the soldiers just went in and fired across.

I mean, they could have been shooting one another, quite frankly.

Do you remember the film, Butch Kettily and the Sundance kid,

the final scene of the shooting, but it's exactly like that.

I cannot pinpoint the very exact moment when I heard the first shot.

What I remember very clearly is that very soon,

the noise was unbearable.

It was like hearing a bomb exploring but continually.

The British journalist, John Rhoda and the Mexican poet David Huerta were both in the square that day. David was part of a peaceful protest movement led by students which had already staged marches

throughout the summer. Mexico had been awarded the Olympics because it was modernizing fast

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