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EXICO CITY, July 23 — A special prosecutor filed murder charges today against former President Luis Echevarría and several former government officials and military officers in the killings of student protestors 33 years ago, one of the darkest and most divisive chapters in the shaping of democracy in modern Mexico.The prosecutor, Ignacio Carrillo Prieto, filed evidence against Mr. Echevarría and his aides in killings of at least 25 protesters who were attacked with clubs and chains by government shock troops called the Falcons as they marched peacefully through Mexico City on June 10, 1971, in support of an education unsullied...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican prosecutor has brought criminal charges against former President Luis Echeverria for a 1971 attack on student protesters that killed at least 25 people, government sources said on Friday.Echeverria, 82, of the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is the first former president in Mexico's modern history to face indictment.Echeverria's lawyer, Juan Velasquez, said a criminal court judge would receive the charges Friday and decide whether to issue an arrest order within 24 hours.The former president had been widely expected to be charged in the June 10, 1971, attack by a paramilitary band on student...