List of massacres in Brazil
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Brazil (numbers may be approximate):
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Massacre at 11th Parallel | 1963 | Mato Grosso | 30 | Only two villagers survived |
Helmet massacre | 1988 | Amazonas | 4 | 19 wounded |
1989 Santa Elmira massacre | 1989 | Rio Grande do Sul | 19 | 400 injured |
Carandiru massacre | October 2, 1992 | São Paulo | 111 | |
Haximu massacre | 1993 | Haximu, Brazil | 16-73 | |
Candelária massacre | July 23, 1993 | Rio de Janeiro | 8 | |
Vigário Geral massacre | August 29, 1993 | Rio de Janeiro | 21 | |
Eldorado dos Carajás massacre | April 17, 1996 | Pará | 19 | |
Parque Oeste massacre | February 16, 2005 | Goias | 2 | 40 wounded. Unknown missing. Over 20 killed in aftermath. |
Baixada massacre | March 31, 2005 | Baixada Fluminense | 29 | |
Complexo do Alemão massacre | June 27, 2007 | Rio de Janeiro | 19 | |
Rio de Janeiro school shooting | April 7, 2011 | Rio de Janeiro | 12 | 20 wounded. All children aged 10–13. |
Campinas massacre | December 31, 2016 | Campinas | 13 | 15 wounded |
2017 Manaus prison riot[1] | January 1, 2017 | Manaus | 56 | |
2017 Santa Lúcia massacre[2][3][4][5] | May 24, 2017 | Fazenda Santa Lúcia, Pau d'Arco, Pará | 10 | 17 military and civilian police shot and killed 10 farm-occupying activists associated with the Landless Workers' Movement. |
Janaúba massacre | October 5, 2017 | Minas Gerais | 14 | 37 wounded |
Campinas Cathedral shooting | December 11, 2018 | Campinas, São Paulo | 5 (including the perpetrator) | 4 injured non-fatally |
Suzano massacre | March 13, 2019 | Suzano | 8 | 8 victims + 2 attackers, 20+ injured, mostly children. |
2019 Altamira prison riot | July 29, 2019 | Altamira, Pará | 62 | 16 prisoners were beheaded, and a further 41 people died from inhaling smoke from a fire lit at the beginning of the riot.[6] |
Belém bar shooting | May 19, 2019 | Belém, Pará | 11 | A group of heavily-armed men — riding on a motorcycle and in three cars — went on a shooting rampage at a bar in Brazil, killing at least 11 people on Sunday[7] |
Saudades massacre | May 4, 2021 | Saudades, Santa Catarina | 5 |
References[]
- ^ "Brazil drug gangs spark prison riot, 56 dead". Reuters.com. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Brazil: Pau D'Arco is the second largest slaughter for land conflicts in 20 years; company comments". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ "Brazil: Authorities must not let the Pau D'Arco massacre go unpunished". Amnesty International. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ "As Fires Rage in the Amazon, Brazil Massacres Activists Trying to Save the Rain Forest". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-03-28. Cite magazine requires
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(help) - ^ "Brazil: two years since the Pau d'Arco massacre, still no justice". Front Line Defenders. 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ "Brazil jail riot leaves at least 57 dead". BBC. 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
- ^ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/05/19/brazil-officials-massacre-media-dead-bar/3736132002/. Missing or empty
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