What the records say
- When
- 18 May 1967
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 20.01° N, 103.52° W
- Description
- 1967 killing of protesters in Mexico
Placed at the town its title names, Atoyac.
Atoyac massacre
1967 killing of protesters in Mexico
On 18 May 1967, Mexican police shot protesters in Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero killing at least five people, in what is referred to as the Atoyac massacre. It was part of a series of disappearances, cases of torture, extrajudicial executions and other forms of repression employed systematically against left-wing groups from the 1960s to the 1980s, in what became known as the Mexican Dirty War.
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