What the records say
- When
- 12 Nov 1991
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 250
- Coordinates
- 8.56° S, 125.59° E
- Description
- 1991 massacre in East Timor
Santa Cruz massacre
1991 massacre in Indonesian-occupied East Timor
The Santa Cruz massacre was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Santa-Cruz-Massaker in Osttimor sterben über 270 Menschen, viele verschwinden spurlos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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