Four excuses were given by the state for crushing the students. These were:
1.That the students staged a play with a mock hanging of the Crown Prince.
2.That the students assembled an arsenal of weapons inside the university in order to stage a revolt.
3.That clashes occurred between “patriotic groups” and the students, which the police were unable to contain by any other means other than to enter the university by force.
4.That the students used the “excessive amount of democracy” which existed since the 14th October 1973 uprising in order to spread communism and destroy the nation.