List of massacres in Bolivia
The following is a list of notable massacres in Bolivia.
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Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Catavi Massacre | 1942 | Catavi mine, Bustillos, Potosí Department | 19–400 | Massacre of striking miners |
San Juan Massacre | 24 June 1967 | Siglo XX–Catavi mine complex, Bustillos, Potosí Department | 20 | Massacre of miners following the San Juan Festival |
All Saints' Massacre | November 1979 | La Paz | 100+ | Killings of protesters, largely in urban La Paz, during the 14-day coup by Alberto Natusch Busch |
15 January 1981 | Sopocachi, La Paz | 8 | Mass shooting by paramilitaries of leaders of the Movement of the Revolutonary Left party | |
Huayllani massacre | 1985 | Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba | 2-4 | Security forces killed 2 to 4 blockading protesters |
Parotani Massacre | 1987 | Parotani, Cochabamba | 4-5 | Security forces killed four or five protesters during protests against coca eradication. |
Villa Tunari Massacre | 27 June 1988 | Villa Tunari, Chapare, Cochabamba Department | 8-12 | Massacre of protesting coca growers by Rural Mobile Patrol |
19-21 December 1996 | Amayapampa, Capasirca, and Llallagua, Potosí Department | 11 | Shootings of striking miners | |
Laymi–Qaqachaka violence | 23–25 January 2000 | Challapata, Oruro | 25-33 | Killings of 25–33 people in a series of inter-ethnic raids among the Laymi, Qaqachaka and Jucumani ayllus. |
Panantí masacre | 9 November 2001 | Panantí, Tarija | 7 | Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed. |
October 2003 | El Alto and La Paz, Murillo, La Paz Department | 59 | Killings of protesters during the Bolivian Gas Conflict | |
Porvenir Massacre | 11 September 2008 | El Porvenir, Pando Department | 12 | Killings, largely of rural teachers, by the Pando civic movement |
Sacaba massacre | 15 November 2019 | Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba | 10 | Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis |
Senkata massacre | 19 November 2019 | Senkata neighborhood, El Alto, La Paz Department | 11 | Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis |
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