What the records say
- When
- 22 Dec 1997
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 45
- Coordinates
- 16.99° N, 92.52° W
- Description
- massacre of 45 Roman Catholic indigenous people attending a prayer meeting, carried out on December 22, 1997, by the paramilitary group Mascaras Rojas (Red M…
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Acteal Massacre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la comunidad de Acteal, en el municipio de Chenalhó (Chiapas, México), grupos paramilitares mexicanos (probablemente pagados por el Gobierno) matan a 45…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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