1963 Moscow protest
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Description
On 18 December 1963, a number of students from Ghana and other African countries organized a protest on Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of the medical student Edmund Assare-Addo. The number of participants was reported at 500–700, but the Ghanaian physician Edward Na, who participated in the events, claimed there were at most 150 protesters. The ambassador of Ghana in the Soviet Union, John Banks Elliott, requested militsiya protection of the Ghanaian embassy.
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