17th November Celebration

On this day every year all the Greeks but especially the students celebrate the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta, having celebrations at schools, in remembrance of the 17^th November 1973.
Greece was under a military junta from 21^st April 1967 till July 1974.
The students started asking free elections for their councils in the universities and a friction with the colonels began.
Finally on 14^th November students from all the Athens area universities gathered in the Athens Technical University campus and using its electronic equipment they assembled a radio station, the only free media station of that time. They asked the colonels to resign so the country could have free elections and asked everybody to help them in their effort.

About 100000 people gathered outside the campus supporting the students when the colonels decided to send tanks to get into the Athens Technical University campus and disband the students by force.
This is a black page in the history of Greece. Greek soldiers were fighting against Greek students.

So every year on that day we mourn, we honour, we praise the dead students but also we celebrate the beginning of the fall of the military junta which finally surrendered on July 1974.