The following is a list of notable massacres in Bolivia.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2022)
Name
Date
Location
Deaths
Notes
Battle of Kuruyuki
28 January 1892
Cuevo, Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department
6,000
Catavi Massacre
21 December 1942
Catavi mine, Bustillos, Potosí Department
19–400
Massacre of striking miners
1946 La Paz riots
8–21 July 1946
La Paz
130
200+ Wounded
Siglo XX mine massacre
28-30 May 1949
Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos, Potosí Department
144
23 injurerd[1]
Bolivian National Revolution
9–11 April 1952
La Paz
490
1.000 Wounded[2]
Terebinto Massacre
19 May 1958
Terebinto, Porongo, Santa Cruz Department
4
Massacre of Santa Cruz citizens by Ucureña militias and armed forces.[3]
San Juan Massacre
24 June 1967
Siglo XX–Catavi mine complex, Bustillos, Potosí Department
20
Massacre of miners following the San Juan Festival
Tolata Massacre
22-31 January 1974
Tolata, Cochabamba
80[4] Up to 200
Killing of workers and peasant groups supporting a blockade.[5]
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
Caracoles massacre
2-4 August 1980
Caracoles Mine, Inquisivi Province, La Paz
11
The exact number is not known although the names of 11 dead, 17 wounded and 14 missing were given. They looted homes, beat children, raped women and girls, and carried off the dead and wounded in three alligators.[6]
Harrington Street massacre [es]
15 January 1981
Sopocachi, La Paz
8
Mass shooting by paramilitaries of leaders of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left party[7][8]
Huayllani massacre
3 June 1985
Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba
2-4
Security forces killed 2 to 4 blockading protesters.[9]
Parotani Massacre
28 May 1987
Parotani, Cochabamba
8
Security forces killed four or five protesters during protests against coca eradication.[10][11][12]
Villa Tunari Massacre
27 June 1988
Villa Tunari, Chapare, Cochabamba Department
8-12
Massacre of protesting coca growers by Rural Mobile Patrol
Christmas Massacre
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.[13]
Panantí masacre
9 November 2001
Panantí, Tarija
7
Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed.[14][15]
2003 La Paz riots
12–13 February 2003
La Paz
31
268 injured
October Massacre [es]
October 2003
El Alto and La Paz, Murillo, La Paz Department
67
Killings of protesters during the Bolivian Gas Conflict[16]
Cochabamba social unrest of 2007
January 11 and 12, 2007
Cochabamba Department
3
Violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa in the departmental capital city of Cochabamba[17]
Porvenir Massacre
11 September 2008
El Porvenir, Pando Department
12
Killings of Pando peasants during the Constituent Assembly conflicts.
Raid on the Hotel Las Américas
April 16, 2009
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
3
Three foreign nationals died in the operation, whom the police identified as terrorist mercenaries, while a further two people were arrested. According to the Bolivian police, the group had been planning to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera
Palmasola prison riot
August 23, 2013
Palmasola, Santa Cruz
31
deadliest prison riot in Bolivian history
Oruro attacks
10–13 February 2018
Oruro, Oruro Department
12
Two bomb attacks
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
^"Senado aprueba homenaje póstumo a los 144 caídos en la masacre del distrito minero Siglo XX - Cámara de Senadores". web.senado.gob.bo (in Spanish). 19 May 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^"Revolución Nacional del 9 de abril 1952 - Noticias de Bolivia".
^"Cívicos, unionistas y otros conmemoraron 65 años de la masacre de Terebinto - EJU.TV". EJU.TV. 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
^Miranda Díaz, Claudia (April 24, 2022). "Masacre del Valle Tolata y Epizana - La Época - Con sentido del momento histórico". La Época (in Spanish). Retrieved September 7, 2023.
^Albro, Robert (September 2009). "Democracy's Labor: Disjunctive Memory in a Bolivian Workers' Union". Latin American Perspectives. 36 (5): 39–57. doi:10.1177/0094582X09341974. S2CID 154710482.
^Miranda Díaz, Claudia (2022-09-08). "Masacre de la mina de caracoles - La Época - Con sentido del momento histórico". La Época. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
^Alejandro Paredes, Ivan (15 January 2022). "41 años de la masacre en la calle Harrington y los homenajes para los ocho dirigentes del MIR asesinados siguen vigentes - El Deber". El Deber. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
^"Presidente rinde su homenaje a los caídos por la recuperación de la democracia, a 42 años de la Masacre de la Calle Harrington". Agencia Boliviana de Información. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
^"Conflicto y negociación en políticas de erradicación de cultivos de coca Titulo Salazar Ortuño , Fernando B. - Biblioteca CLACSO" (PDF). biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
^"Parotani, la memoria como arma - Oxígeno Digital". Oxígeno Digital. 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
^Indigenous Struggle and the Bolivian National Revolution: Land and Liberty! - James Kohl - Google Livros
^Jefazo: Retrato íntimo de Evo Morales
^"Chronology for Indigenous Highland Peoples in Bolivia - Refworld".
^"Naturaleza de la demanda y estrategia de acceso - Pananti APG: La decidida lucha de las mujeres por acceder a su territorio".
^"La matanza de Pananti, una masacre en el olvido - El País Tarija". El País Tarija. 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
^"Víctimas de la 'Masacre de Octubre' aún recuerdan con dolor ese episodio 'fatídico' de la historia de Bolivia - Viceministerio de Comunicación". www.comunicacion.gob.bo. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
^Vásquez, Katiuska (2010-01-12). "El 11 de enero de 2007 hubo 450 víctimas". Los Tiempos. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
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