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2021-05-19 02:35:20 GMT2021-05-19 10:35:20(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
MEXICO CITY, May 18 (Xinhua) The Mexican government has apologized to the Chinese community for injustices and wrongdoings committed during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution in early 20th century.
During a solemn ceremony titled Appeal for forgiveness for offences against the Chinese community in Mexico early Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lamented the massacre of 303 Chinese people by revolutionary troops in 1911 in the country s northern Coahuila state.
Condemning the crime as motivated by racial hatred, Lopez Obrador said violence and war must be avoided by all means in his speech in the city of Torreon where the tragedy occurred.
Mexican president apologizes for 1911 massacre
DISCRIMINATION: The 1911 killings of 303 Chinese men, women and children occurred in the chaotic period of the Mexican Revolution, when troops overran the city of Torreon
AP, MEXICO CITY
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday apologized for a 1911 massacre in which more than 300 Chinese were slaughtered by revolutionary troops in the northern city of Torreon.
The apology is the latest in a series of ceremonies in which Lopez Obrador has sought to make amends for the mistreatment of ethnic minorities in Mexico in past centuries.
Lopez Obrador said the point of the apology was to ensure “that this never, ever happens again,” adding that the Chinese were mutilated or hung from telegraph poles.
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