| Name
|
Date
|
Location
|
Deaths
|
Notes
|
| Battle of Kuruyuki
|
28 January 1892
|
Cuevo, Cordillera Province, Santa Cruz Department
|
6,000
|
|
| Catavi Massacre
|
1942
|
Catavi mine, Bustillos, Potosí Department
|
19–400
|
Massacre of striking miners
|
| 1946 La Paz riots
|
8–21 July 1946
|
La Paz
|
130
|
200+ Wounded
|
| Terebinto Massacre
|
19 May 1958
|
Terebinto, Porongo, Santa Cruz Department
|
4
|
Massacre of Santa Cruz citizens by Ucureña militias and armed forces.[1]
|
| San Juan Massacre
|
24 June 1967
|
Siglo XX–Catavi mine complex, Bustillos, Potosí Department
|
20
|
Massacre of miners following the San Juan Festival
|
| Tolata Massacre
|
January 1974
|
Tolata, Cochabamba
|
Up to 200
|
Killing of workers and peasant groups supporting a blockade.[2]
|
| All Saints' Massacre
|
November 1979
|
La Paz
|
100+
|
Killings of protesters, largely in urban La Paz, during the 14-day coup by Alberto Natusch Busch
|
| Caracoles massacre
|
2-4 August 1980
|
Caracoles Mine, Inquisivi Province, La Paz
|
11
|
The exact number is not known although the names of 11 dead, 17 wounded and 14 missing were given. They looted homes, beat children, raped women and girls, and carried off the dead and wounded in three alligators.[3]
|
| Harrington Street massacre [es]
|
15 January 1981
|
Sopocachi, La Paz
|
8
|
Mass shooting by paramilitaries of leaders of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left party
|
| Huayllani massacre
|
3 June 1985
|
Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba
|
2-4
|
Security forces killed 2 to 4 blockading protesters.[4]
|
| Parotani Massacre
|
28 May 1987
|
Parotani, Cochabamba
|
4-5
|
Security forces killed four or five protesters during protests against coca eradication.[5]
|
| Villa Tunari Massacre
|
27 June 1988
|
Villa Tunari, Chapare, Cochabamba Department
|
8-12
|
Massacre of protesting coca growers by Rural Mobile Patrol
|
| Christmas Massacre
|
19-21 December 1996
|
Amayapampa, Capasirca, and Llallagua, Potosí Department
|
11
|
Shootings of striking miners
|
| Laymi–Qaqachaka violence
|
23–25 January 2000
|
Challapata, Oruro
|
25-33
|
Killings of 25–33 people in a series of inter-ethnic raids among the Laymi, Qaqachaka and Jucumani ayllus.[6]
|
| Panantí masacre
|
9 November 2001
|
Panantí, Tarija
|
7
|
Hired assailants killed six farmers belonging to the Landless Workers Movement; one assailant was killed.[7][8]
|
| October Massacre [es]
|
October 2003
|
El Alto and La Paz, Murillo, La Paz Department
|
59
|
Killings of protesters during the Bolivian Gas Conflict[9]
|
| Cochabamba social unrest of 2007
|
January 11 and 12, 2007
|
Cochabamba Department
|
3
|
Violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa in the departmental capital city of Cochabamba[10]
|
| Porvenir Massacre
|
11 September 2008
|
El Porvenir, Pando Department
|
12
|
Killings of Pando peasants during the Constituent Assembly conflicts.
|
| Raid on the Hotel Las Américas
|
April 16, 2009
|
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
|
3
|
Three foreign nationals died in the operation, whom the police identified as terrorist mercenaries, while a further two people were arrested. According to the Bolivian police, the group had been planning to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera
|
| Palmasola prison riot
|
August 23, 2013
|
Palmasola, Santa Cruz
|
31
|
deadliest prison riot in Bolivian history
|
| Oruro attacks
|
10–13 February 2018
|
Oruro, Oruro Department
|
12
|
Two bomb attacks
|
| Sacaba massacre
|
15 November 2019
|
Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, Cochabamba
|
10
|
Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis
|
| Senkata massacre
|
19 November 2019
|
Senkata neighborhood, El Alto, La Paz Department
|
11
|
Killings of pro-Evo Morales protesters by soldiers and police during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis
|
