List of massacres in Bolivia

The following is a list of notable massacres in Bolivia.

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Battle of Kuruyuki 28 January 1892 Cuevo, Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department 6,000
Catavi Massacre 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
Bolivian National Revolution 9–11 April 1952 La Paz 490 1.000 Wounded[1]
Terebinto Massacre 19 May 1958 Terebinto, Porongo, Santa Cruz Department 4 Massacre of Santa Cruz citizens by Ucureña militias and armed forces.[2]
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[3] Up to 200 Killing of workers and peasant groups supporting a blockade.[4]
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.[5]
Harrington Street massacre 15 January 1981 Sopocachi, La Paz 8 Mass shooting by paramilitaries of leaders of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left party
Huayllani massacre 3 June 1985 Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba 2-4 Security forces killed 2 to 4 blockading protesters.[6]
Parotani Massacre 28 May 1987 Parotani, Cochabamba 8 Security forces killed four or five protesters during protests against coca eradication.[7][8][9]
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.[10]
Panantí masacre 9 November 2001 Panantí, Tarija 7 Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed.[11][12]
2003 La Paz riots 12–13 February 2003 La Paz 31 268 injured
October Massacre October 2003 El Alto and La Paz, Murillo, La Paz Department 67 Killings of protesters during the Bolivian Gas Conflict[13]
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[14]
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

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