List of massacres in Bolivia

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The following is a list of notable massacres in Bolivia.

NameDateLocationDeathsNotes
Battle of Kuruyuki 28 January 1892 Cuevo, Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department6,000
Catavi Massacre 21 December 1942Catavi mine, Bustillos, Potosí Department 19–400Massacre of striking miners
1946 La Paz riots 8–21 July 1946La Paz130200+ Wounded
Siglo XX mine massacre28–30 May 1949 Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos, Potosí Department14423 injurerd [1]
Bolivian National Revolution 9–11 April 1952La Paz4901.000 Wounded [2]
Terebinto Massacre19 May 1958Terebinto, Porongo, Santa Cruz Department 4Massacre of Santa Cruz citizens by Ucureña militias and armed forces. [3]
San Juan Massacre 24 June 1967Siglo XX–Catavi mine complex, Bustillos, Potosí Department20Massacre of miners following the San Juan Festival
Tolata Massacre22–31 January 1974 Tolata, Cochabamba 80 [4] Up to 200Killing of workers and peasant groups supporting a blockade. [5]
All Saints' Massacre November 1979La Paz100+Killings of protesters, largely in urban La Paz, during the 14-day coup by Alberto Natusch Busch
Caracoles massacre2–4 August 1980Caracoles Mine, Inquisivi Province, La Paz11The 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 Paz8Mass shooting by paramilitaries of leaders of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left party [7] [8]
Huayllani massacre3 June 1985Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba 2-4Security forces killed 2 to 4 blockading protesters. [9]
Parotani Massacre28 May 1987 Parotani, Cochabamba8Security forces killed four or five protesters during protests against coca eradication. [10] [11] [12]
Villa Tunari Massacre 27 June 1988 Villa Tunari, Chapare, Cochabamba Department8-12Massacre of protesting coca growers by Rural Mobile Patrol
Christmas Massacre 19–21 December 1996 Amayapampa, Capasirca, and Llallagua, Potosí Department11Shootings of striking miners
Laymi–Qaqachaka violence23–25 January 2000 Challapata, Oruro 25-33Killings of 25–33 people in a series of inter-ethnic raids among the Laymi, Qaqachaka and Jucumani ayllus. [13]
Panantí masacre9 November 2001Panantí, Tarija7Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed. [14] [15]
2003 La Paz riots 12–13 February 2003La Paz31268 injured
October Massacre  [ es ]October 2003El Alto and La Paz, Murillo, La Paz Department67Killings of protesters during the Bolivian Gas Conflict [16]
Cochabamba social unrest of 2007 January 11 and 12, 2007 Cochabamba Department 3Violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa in the departmental capital city of Cochabamba [17]
Porvenir Massacre 11 September 2008El Porvenir, Pando Department12Killings of Pando peasants during the Constituent Assembly conflicts.
Raid on the Hotel Las Américas April 16, 2009 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3Three 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 31deadliest prison riot in Bolivian history
Oruro attacks 10–13 February 2018 Oruro, Oruro Department 12Two bomb attacks
Sacaba massacre 15 November 2019Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba 10Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis
Senkata massacre 19 November 2019Senkata neighborhood, El Alto, La Paz Department 11Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis

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