What the records say
- When
- 18 Oct 1977
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 2.40° S, 79.33° W
- Description
- massacre of workers in Ecuador
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Aztra massacre
The Aztra massacre was a massacre of workers perpetrated by the National Police of Ecuador on October 18, 1977, at the Aztra ingenio, located in the La Troncal Canton, Cañar Province. The massacre left more than a hundred workers killed, mostly Indigenous, and occurred after the Indigenous workers started a strike to demand better wages.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la répression de la grève de la raffinerie de sucre AZTRA en Équateur faut une centaine de morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Ecuador, en el marco de la dictadura del general Alfredo Poveda, la policía abre fuego contra los trabajadores de un ingenio azucarero que se encontraban en…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page