List of massacres in Chile
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Chile (numbers may be approximate):
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wulaia massacre | November 6, 1859 | Bahía Wulaia, Navarino Island | 8 | Murder of eight unarmed Europeans by about three hundred Yaghans |
Meat riots | October 22-24, 1905 | Santiago de Chile | 250 | |
Plaza Colón massacre | February 6, 1906 | Antofagasta | 300 | |
Santa María School massacre | December 21, 1907 | Iquique | 2000 | |
Forrahue massacre | October 21, 1912 | Forrahue, near Osorno | 15[1] | |
Marusia massacre | March, 1925 | Antofagasta | 500 | |
Ranquil massacre | 1934 | Alto Biobío | 477 | |
Seguro Obrero massacre | September 5, 1938 | Santiago de Chile | 56 | |
Massacre of Puerto Montt | March 9, 1969 | Llanquihue | 10 | 70 Wounded |
Laja massacre | September 18, 1973 | Laja and San Rosendo | 19 | [2] |
Operation Colombo | 1975 | Chile | 119 | |
Cerro Gallo massacre | 1975 | Cerro Gallo, Colonia Dignidad | unknown | The military squads fired on prisoners who, once dead, were passed off as guerrillas who would have tried to enter Chile from Argentina by crossing the Andes mountain range[3] |
Attack on Carol Urzúa | August 30 , 1983 | Las Condes | 3 | At least three members of the Chilean army were killed in an ambush by members of the revolutionary left-wing movement[4][5] |
Caso Degollados | March 30, 1985 | Chile | 3 | |
Operation Albania | June 15 -16, 1987 | Santiago | 12 | |
Apoquindo massacre | October 21, 1993 | Las Condes | 8 | 12 Wounded |
Valparaiso schools shootings | December 17, 1999 | Valparaíso | 3 | Perpetrator Wounded[6] |
2010 Santiago prison fire | December 8, 2010 | Santiago | 81 | 19 Wounded |
Plaza de Maipú metro station Shooting | July 17, 2011 | Santiago de Chile | 3 (including the perpetrator) | 4 Wounded |
Puente Alto shooting | August 8, 2019 | Puente Alto, Cordillera Province | 5 | [7][8][9] |
References
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- Seitz, Max (July 22, 2016). "Exclusivo de BBC Mundo: los macabros detalles de Colonia Dignidad que escondían los archivos desclasificados por Alemania". BBC News (in Spanish). Retrieved September 1, 2023.
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