Mexican president apologizes for 1911 massacre DISCRIMINATION: The 1911 killings of 303 Chinese men, women and children occurred in the chaotic period of the Mexican Revolution, when troops overran the city of Torreon AP, MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday apologized for a 1911 massacre in which more than 300 Chinese were slaughtered by revolutionary troops in the northern city of Torreon. The apology is the latest in a series of ceremonies in which Lopez Obrador has sought to make amends for the mistreatment of ethnic minorities in Mexico in past centuries. Lopez Obrador said the point of the apology was to ensure “that this never, ever happens again,” adding that the Chinese were mutilated or hung from telegraph poles.