Corpus Christi massacre

When

10 Jun 1971

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

120

Coordinates

19.44° N, 99.17° W

Description

1971 massacre of student demonstrators in Mexico

1971 massacre of student demonstrators in Mexico

El Halconazo, also known as the Corpus Christi Massacre, was a massacre of student demonstrators by members of the Halcones, a state-sponsored paramilitary group, on 10 June 1971 in Mexico City. Occurring during the Mexican Dirty War, the massacre resulted in nearly 120 demonstrators being killed.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las cercanías del Casco de Santo Tomás (México), el Gobierno perpetra una masacre de estudiantes en el asalto conocido como "El Halconazo" o Matanza del…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page