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		</div><p>Clashes have broken out between anarchists and police in Greece on the sidelines of a peaceful march to the US embassy in Athens.</p>
<p>The incident happened during the annual commemoration of a 1973 student uprising that was crushed by the military dictatorship which ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.</p>
<p>Around 17,000 people marched peacefully to the embassy, although some protesters taunted and threw garbage at about 1,000 participating supporters of the governing Syriza party.<br />
Some 3,000 police were deployed in central Athens as a precaution.</p>
<p>The violence came from another quarter of the city: Dozens of anarchists occupied the National Technical University complex, site of the failed pro-democracy revolt, and attacked police with petrol bombs, flares and stones.</p>
<p>Riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades as street battles lurched outside the university in the densely-inhabited Exarcheia district, away from the embassy. No arrests or injuries were reported.</p>
<p>The march began at the gates of the university, also known as the Polytechnic, where in 1973 the military sent in a tank to crush student demonstrations.</p>
<p>Several people were killed during the crackdown, but historians disagree on the precise death toll.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GreeceProtesterssAgainstBarackObamaPic1_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GreeceProtesterssAgainstBarackObamaPic1_large.jpg" alt="greeceprotesterssagainstbarackobamapic1_large" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-99632" /></a></p>
<p>The university has been the flashpoint of many anti-government protests over the years. Before the march started, suspected anarchists stole two riot police shields and helmets and hung them on a statue in Exarcheia.</p>
<p>In the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece&#8217;s second-largest city, 8,000 protesters marched to the US Consulate.</p>
<p>Anarchists attacked police with petrol bombs, and one group burned a US flag outside the building.</p>
<p>An anti-American protest during a visit by US president Barack Obama to Athens on Tuesday was marred by extensive clashes around the Polytechnic between anarchists and Greek riot police.</p>
<p>Many Greek left-wing supporters still deeply resent the US for supporting the oppressive dictatorship in Greece at the height of the Cold War.</p>
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