Recognizing ‘femicide’ 35 years after the Montreal massacre [Video]

Ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre on Friday, Annie Ross, a mechanical engineering professor at Polytechnique Montréal, said she often thinks of those who lived through the tragedy but still suffer silently.

On Dec. 6, 1989, a man motivated by a hatred of feminists shot and killed 14 women and injured 13 other people at the Montreal engineering school affiliated with Université de Montréal.

Ross was in her fourth year in mechanical engineering at Polytechnique and narrowly avoided the gunman. Her friends weren’t as lucky.

“That day, I was studying at Polytechnique, preparing for my exams and I was supposed to go in class with them — with that group. They were presenting their final project and it was all exciting,” Ross said.

But instead of walking into class, she decided to go home and study. “That was minutes before the tragedy happened (and) by the time …