Special prosecutors in Mexico have filed genocide and kidnapping charges against a former Mexican president

BBC News:

Luis Echeverria, now 83, is accused of ordering a massacre of student protesters in 1968, days before the Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.

As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.

A Mexico City judge must now rule on whether the case should go to trial.

Mr Echeverria is the first former Mexican president to face the possibility of charges for human rights abuses allegedly committed during his time in office.

He was serving as interior minister and head of national security at the time of the massacre.

Special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo filed the charges after a judge ruled in July that Mr Echeverria could not be charged over separate killings in 1971.

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