List of massacres in Guatemala

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NameDateLocationDeathsNotes
Instituto Técnico de Agricultura massacreNovember 13, 1971 Bárcena, Villa Nueva, Guatemala Department 2A 21-year-old Basilio Martínez Avila killed two people with a machete at an agricultural school near Guatemala City. He wounded 15 others before being overpowered by other students. [1] [2] [3]
Panzós massacre [4] May 29, 1978 Panzós 30-60Residents of village of Panzós were killed by the army
Spanish Embassy Massacre January 31, 1980 Guatemala City 36Indigenous peasant activists were burnt alive alongside former vice president Eduardo Cáceres among others
Río Negro Massacre March 13, 1982 Río Negro, Baja Verapaz 177Women and children were abused and murdered
Plan de Sánchez massacre July 18, 1982 Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz 250Mostly women and children, and almost exclusively ethnic Achi Maya were abused and murdered
Dos Erres massacre December 6, 1982Dos Erres, La Libertad, El Peten226Women, Children, Men, many had their heads bashed with hammers and thrown into a well. Others thrown in still alive.
Xamán massacre 5 October 1995 Chisec, Alta Verapaz Department 11Members of the Guatemalan Army killed 11 people and injured 27 on a farm in Xamán [5] [6] [7]
Attack against a bus in NicaraguaNovember 8, 2008 Zacapa department 16An attack by drug traffickers causes the death of 16 foreigners who were on a bus in the department of Zacapa in the eastern part of the country. The victims, 15 Nicaraguans and on 1 Dutchman, were riddled with bullets inside the bus and later burned along with it. According to subsequent investigations, the motive for the attack was the alleged existence of drugs on the bus. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Los Cocos Massacre15 May 2011 La Libertad, Petén Department 27A group of drug traffickers from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas invade a farm in the department of Petén, in the north of the country, and kill 27 peasants by beheading. [12] [13] [14]
2017 Roosevelt Hospital attack 16 August 2017 Guatemala City 7While an MS-13 inmate was being transported, several armed men began shooting at the staff and prison guards who were carrying him. 5 minutes later, the gang members fled with the other member. The incident resulted in 7 dead and 12 injured [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
Chiquix massacre18 December 2021 [21] Village of Chiquix, Nahualá, Sololá department 13 [22] [23] Murder of 13 people, including three children, in an ambush committed by armed men by Territorial Dispute. [24]

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  2. ↑ Terror en dormitorio estudiantil: Dos muertos y quince heridos, La Nación (November 15, 1971)
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  5. ↑ "CorteIDH responsabiliza a Estado de Guatemala por masacre de indígenas en 1995". Guatevision (in Spanish). September 28, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  6. ↑ Galicia, Néstor (October 4, 2017). "1995: masacre en Xamán, Alta Verapaz". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved September 22, 2023.
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