List of massacres in Argentina

|May, 1891

|Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province

|13

|A man named José Medana murders 10 of his children and 3 of his grandchildren.– [http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/755699/1227 Em Aires de Lomas...], A Republica
– [http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/090972_05/1854 Chega a noticia de um crime...], Correio Paulistano
– [http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/388653/6230 Apuração – Ao Artista do Rio foi annunciado...], A Federação : Orgam do Partido Republicano (RS)
– [http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/705110/29522 Um crime horroso...], Jornal do Recife

|February 5, 1905

|Pirovano, Buenos Aires Province

|18-20

|Confrontation between a military column from Bahía Blanca, which adhered to the Radical Revolution led by Hipólito Yrigoyen, and pro-government forces, led by President Manuel Quintana{{Cite news|language=Spanish|title=La localidad de Pirovano cumple 107 años de historia – Red Baires|url=http://redbaires.com.ar/bolivar/la-localidad-de-pirovano-cumple-107-anos-de-historia/|date=October 20, 2020|access-date=November 19, 2023|work=redbaires.com.ar}}{{Cite news|language=Spanish|title=Integrantes de Evolución Radical realizaron un acto por la Masacre de Pirovano - Diario La Mañana|url=https://www.diariolamanana.com.ar/noticia/integrantes-de-evolucion-radical-realizaron-un-acto-por-la-masacre-de-pirovano/|date=February 6, 2022|access-date=November 19, 2023|work=www.diariolamanana.com.ar}}

|January 7, 1919

|Buenos Aires

|700

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|January 29, 1921

|Santa Fe province

|~600{{Cite web |last=Clarín.com |date=2020-12-22 |title=La Forestal, a un siglo de la revuelta y la represión |url=https://www.clarin.com/revista-enie/ideas/forestal-siglo-revuelta-represion_0_TQsqlU5zk.html |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=Clarín |language=es}}

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|1921

|Santa Cruz Province

|300-1500

|Uprising and violent suppression of a rural workers' strike by Colonel Héctor Benigno Varela's 10th Cavalry Regiment of the Argentine Army, Approximately 300-1,500 rural workers were shot and killed by the 10th Cavalry Regiment in the course of the operations, many of them executed by firing squads after surrendering

|July 19, 1924

|Napalpí, Chaco

|400

|Massacre of 400 indigenous people of the Toba ethnicity by the Argentine Police and ranchers.

|October, 1947

|Las Lomitas, Formosa

|750{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmiercolesdigital.com.ar/rincon-bomba-masacre-en-formosa/|title=Rincón Bomba: masacre en Formosa - El Miércoles Digital|date=17 October 2021|access-date=13 August 2024|website=www.elmiercolesdigital.com.ar|language=Spanish}}-1,000{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/la-masacre-de-un-pueblo-originario-que-el-peronismo-intento-ocultar-nid10102022/|title=La masacre de un pueblo originario que el peronismo intentó ocultar - LA NACION|date=10 October 2022|access-date=13 August 2024|website=La Nación|last=Boerr|first=Martín|language=Spanish}}

|Pilagá natives (including children, women and the elderly) who were trying to carry out a march, are machine-gunned by the National Gendarmerie{{Cite web |last=thenationview.com |date=2022-10-10 |title=The massacre of the original city that Peronism tried to hide |url= https://thenationview.com/politics/109254.html?amp |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=The Nation View }}

|June 16, 1955

|Plaza de Mayo

|364

|Failed coup by anti-Perón factions of the Argentine military

|June 9, 1956

|José León Suárez, General San Martín Partido

|5

|illegal execution of Perón supporters in the José León Suárez landfills before the declaration of martial law during an ill-fated attempt to return Peronism to power. Recounted in the book " Operación Masacre ".{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2023/06/09/fusilamientos-en-el-basural-de-jose-leon-suarez-el-muerto-que-vive-y-la-operacion-masacre-que-denuncio-walsh/|title=Fusilamientos en el basural de José León Suárez, "el muerto que vive" y la Operación Masacre que denunció Walsh - Infobae|date=9 June 2023|access-date=18 January 2025|website=Infobae|last=Cecchini|first=Daniel|language=Spanish}}

|August 29, 1963

|Buenos Aires

|2

|The Tacuara Nationalist Movement robbed a bank, stealing almost 100,000 US dollars. 2 people died and 3 were injured.{{Cite news|language=Spanish|title=El asalto al Policlínico Bancario: la primera operación guerrillera de la Argentina y el ridículo del comisario Meneses - Infobae|url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2022/08/29/el-asalto-al-policlinico-bancario-la-primera-operacion-guerrillera-de-la-argentina-y-el-ridiculo-del-comisario-meneses/|last=Cecchini|first=Daniel|date=August 29, 2022|access-date=September 3, 2023|work=Infobae}}

|August 22, 1972

|Trelew

|16

|Government members during the Dirty War torture and kill members of the left wing guerrilla group Montoneros

|June 20, 1973

|Ezeiza

|13+

|Massacre of left-wing Peronists at rally celebrating his return from Spain at Ezeiza International Airport and 365+ Injured. Right-wing Peronists were blamed for the massacre. 13 victims were positively identified but more people may have been killed.

|August 12, 1974

|San José de Fray Mamerto Esquiú, Catamarca Province

|16

|After a failed operation by the guerrilla organization ERP, 16 surrendered and unarmed guerrillas were illegally shot{{Cite web |date=2020-08-12 |title=A 46 años de la masacre de Capilla del Rosario - El Ancasti |url=https://www.elancasti.com.ar/politica-economia/2020/8/12/46-anos-de-la-masacre-de-capilla-del-rosario-441527.html |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=El Ancasti |language=es}}

|August 28, 1975

|San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán

|6

|Operation Gardel was the key name given by the Montoneros to the bombing of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules of Group 1 of Transport of the First Air Brigade during takeoff at the International Airport Lieutenant General Benjamín Matienzo, carrying 114 gendarmes, killing six and wounding 29.{{Cite web|url=https://tucumanarde.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/el-dia-que-exploto-el-aeropuerto-de-tucuman/|title = El día que explotó el Aeropuerto de Tucuman|date = 29 August 2010}}

|October 5, 1975

|Formosa

|32+

|A group of 50 guerrillas assaulted the Infantry Regiment of Monte 29, the Subofficers' Casino of that force and the Airport El Pucú. The event was called by its perpetrators as Operation Primicia.

|October 10, 1975

|Acheral, Tucumán province

|14

|At least one soldier and 13 ERP militants were shot dead in a confrontation of the so-called Operativo Independencia.

|December 23–24, 1975

|Monte Chingolo, Buenos Aires

|100+

|A failed assault on the Battalion Arsenals Depot 601 Domingo Viejobueno, in the town of Monte Chingolo, was the last great action of the People's Revolutionary Army. It aimed to appropriate 20 tons of weaponry. The attack was frustrated by the Argentine army, Federal Police and Police of the Province of Buenos Aires, and the Air Force. 30 guerrillas who surrendered were later shot dead by the army.[http://albertomoyalibros.blogspot.mx/2015/12/viejobueno-40-anos.html Alberto Moya –Libros y conferencias–: Viejobueno, a 40 años]

|July 2, 1976

|Buenos Aires

|23

|Montoneros attacked the Federal Security Superintendency (also known as Federal Coordination) of the Federal Police, causing the collapse of the roof of the dining room when the place was full of officers having lunch. 23 people died, including one female civilian who was visiting, and about 110 were injured, in response for the coup d'état of March 24.{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2022/07/02/a-46-anos-del-atentado-de-montoneros-al-comedor-de-la-policia-federal-familiares-de-las-victimas-marcharon-para-pedir-justicia/|title=A 46 años del atentado de Montoneros al comedor de la Policía Federal, familiares de las víctimas marcharon para pedir justicia - Infobae|date=2 July 2022|access-date=13 August 2024|website=Infobae|language=Spanish}}

|July 4, 1976

|Belgrano, Buenos Aires

|5

|Government officials execute three priests and two seminarians during the Dirty War.

|August 20, 1976

|Fátima

|30

|Prisoners in the custody of the federal police – illegally detained – were drugged, shot, and later their bodies were blown up to hide evidence of the crime

|September 4, 1976

|Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires

|4

|Four Peronist Youth militants were murdered by firing squad{{Cite web|url=https://www.derechos.org/nizkor/arg/doc/bbca55.html|title=Equipo Nizkor - En la masacre de calle Catriel el ejército encubrió el asesinato de Zulma Matzkin, Juan Carlos Castillo, Pablo Fornasari y Mario Manuel Tarchitzky.|date=29 August 2011|access-date=24 December 2023|website=Equipo Nizkor|language=Spanish}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.colonbuenosaires.com.ar/semanariocolondoce/cgi-bin/hoy/archivo/2011a/00000024.html|title=La Masacre de Catriel y el encubrimiento de cuatro asesinatos|date=8 September 2011|access-date=24 December 2023|website=www.colonbuenosaires.com.ar|language=Spanish}}

|September 12, 1976

|Rosario

|11

|A bomb blast kills ten policemen and two civilians and injures at least 30 people.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19760913&id=mRwsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6MgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3203,2551117 Nine policemen killed by bomb], Times Daily (September 13, 1976){{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2023/09/12/masacre-de-rosario-once-muertos-en-plena-dictadura-con-bombas-vietnamitas-atribuidas-a-montoneros/|title=Masacre de Rosario: once muertos en plena dictadura con bombas vietnamitas atribuidas a Montoneros - Infobae|date=12 September 2023|access-date=13 August 2024|website=Infobae|last=Frias|first=Miguel|language=Spanish}}

|December 13, 1976

|Margarita Belén, Chaco Province

|22

|22 Montoneros were tortured and executed, and the case was used during one of the first trials of Jorge Rafael Videla.

|March 14, 1978

|Devoto prison, Devoto, Buenos Aires

|65{{Cite web |date=2021-03-14 |title=La masacre del Pabellón Séptimo: 43 años de la noche del infierno en la que murieron 65 presos - Página-12 - Página12 |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/459813-la-masacre-del-pabellon-septimo-43-anos-de-la-noche-del-infi |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=Página 12 |language=es}}

|85 injuries

|October 31 – November 7, 1986

|Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province

|5

|The Serial killer Walter de Giusti breaks into two houses and murders all its occupants. On October 31, he kills Ángela Cristofanetti de Barroso and her stepdaughter Noemí; 7 days later he murders the grandmothers of the musician Fito Páez and a domestic employee.

|January 8, 1988

|José C. Paz, Buenos Aires Province

|4

|Easy Trigger Case{{Cite web |date=2021-12-10 |title=La Masacre de Budge - Testimonios BA |url=https://www.testimoniosba.com/2021/12/10/la-masacre-de-bunge/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=testimoniosba.com |language=es}}

|January 23–24, 1989

|La Tablada, Buenos Aires Province

|39

|60 Wounded

|December 3, 1990

|Buenos Aires

|14

|200 Wounded{{Cite web |date=2020-12-03 |title=A 30 años del levantamiento carapintada - La historia del último alzamiento militar |url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/309658-a-30-anos-del-levantamiento-carapintada |access-date=2023-08-25|website=Página 12 |language=es}}

|March 17, 1992

|Buenos Aires

|30

|242 civilians injured. An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber rams his car into the Israeli embassy, destroying the embassy and a Catholic church and school that were nearby. Many of the dead were children. Argentina accused Hezbollah of being involved in the attack.

|November 15, 1992

|La Plata, Buenos Aires Province

|4

|Dentist Ricardo Barreda murders his wife, two daughters and mother-in-law{{Cite web |last=Redacción |date=2020-05-25 |title=Murió el femicida Ricardo Barreda |url=https://www.rionegro.com.ar/murio-el-femicida-ricardo-barreda-1369419/ |access-date=2023-08-27 |website=Diario Río Negro {{!}} Periodismo en la Patagonia |language=es}}

|July 18, 1994

|Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, Buenos Aires

|86

|A suicide bomber rammed his car into the building of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) killing 85 people and injuring 300+. The bombing has never been officially solved, but Argentina, Israel and the United States accused Hezbollah and Iran of being behind the attack and Argentina named 21-year-old Hezbollah operative Ibrahim Hussein Berro as the bomber

|November 3, 1995

|Río Tercero, Córdoba

|7

|A series of explosions destroyed a military factory. The courts confirmed that it was an intentional attack carried out to cover up arms smuggling to Ecuador and Croatia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/judiciales/2024/04/20/a-mas-de-28-anos-de-la-voladura-de-rio-tercero-las-victimas-siguen-esperando-reparaciones-pero-el-estado-no-define-ni-cuando-ni-como/|title=A más de 28 años de la voladura de Río Tercero, las víctimas siguen esperando reparaciones pero el Estado no define ni cuándo ni cómo - Infobae|date=20 April 2024|access-date=20 September 2024|website=Guioteca|last=Blanco|first=Patricia|language=Spanish}}

|March 30 - April 7, 1996

|Sierra Chica Prison, Sierra Chica, Olavarría Partido, Buenos Aires Province

|9{{Cite web|url=http://www.olavarria.com/archivos/laciudad/historia/motin_sierra_chica/index.php|title=OLAVARRIA.COM - Historia - El Motín de Sierra Chica|access-date=23 September 2024|website=www.olavarria.com|language=Spanish}}

|A group of men deprived of liberty who were called the ‘Twelve Apostles’ took 17 hostages, killed eight people and cooked food from their body parts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanuevaradiosuarez.com.ar/policial/olavarria-sierra-chica-a-28-aos-del-sanguinario-motin-de-los-doce-apostoles-68130.html|title=Olavarría Sierra Chica: a 28 años del sanguinario motín de "Los Doce Apóstoles"|date=30 March 2024|access-date=23 September 2024|website=www.lanuevaradiosuarez.com.ar|last=Messi|first=Virginia|language=Spanish}}

|December 20, 2001

|Buenos Aires

|5

|Members of the Argentine Federal Police fired against a group of protesters who were protesting in the Plaza de Mayo. As a result, 5 people were killed and 227 were injured.

|June 26, 2002

|Darío Santillán and Maximiliano Kosteki Station, Buenos Aires Province

|2

|33 Wounded{{Cite web |date=2002-07-06 |title=Sheer bloody murder - Socialist Worker|url=https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/sheer-bloody-murder/ |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=Socialist Worker }}{{Cite web|title=20 years after the murders, they commemorate Kosteki and Santillán - Latin america News| date=25 June 2022 |url=https://latin-american.news/20-years-after-the-murders-they-commemorate-kosteki-and-santillan/?amp=1 |access-date=2023-08-22}}{{Cite web |date=2023-06-26 |title=A 21 años de la Masacre de Avellaneda: ¡Darío Santillán y Maximiliano Kosteki presentes, ahora y siempre! - CICOP |url=https://cicop.org.ar/consejo-directivo-provincial/a-21-anos-de-la-masacre-de-avellaneda-dario-santillan-y-maximiliano-kosteki-presentes-ahora-y-siempre/ |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=cicop.org.ar |language=es}}

|September 28, 2004

|Carmen de Patagones, Buenos Aires Province

|3

|Armed with his father's 9 mm pistol, Rafael Solich a 15-year-old student opened fire on his classmates during a flag-hoisting at Islas Malvinas Middle School Number Two in Carmen de Patagones, Argentina, killing three students and wounding 5 others.{{cite news|title=Argentine boy shoots classmates|date=2004-09-29|work=BBC News|url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3697678.stm|access-date = 2009-04-25}}{{cite news|first=Bill|last=Cormier|title=School shooting in Argentina kills four|date=2004-09-29|url =http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040929/ai_n14586339/|work=The Oakland Tribune|access-date = 2009-04-25}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}[https://archive.today/20121230015707/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=726704 Carmen de Patagones: sancionaron al padre del chico que baleó a sus compañeros], La Nación (August 2, 2005)

|May 3, 2006

|La Primera de Grand Bourg, San Miguel, Buenos Aires

|2

|55-year-old former employee Eugenio Villela opened fire on his past co-workers, killing two people and wounding four others before fleeing the scene.

|August 13, 2008

|General Rodríguez

|3

|Torture and deaths of Three pharmaceutical businessmen

|December 3–13, 2013

|Argentina

|18

|400+ Wounded

|March 2, 2017

|Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province

|7

|{{Cite news|title=IACHR Laments Deaths in Fire at Police Jail in Buenos Aires, Argentina|url=https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2017/026.asp|date=March 9, 2017|access-date=September 4, 2023|work=www.oas.org}}{{Cite news|title=Conditions lamented as seven Argentine inmates die in fire - Catholic World Report |url=https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/03/09/conditions-lamented-as-seven-argentine-inmates-die-in-fire/|date=March 9, 2017|access-date=September 4, 2023|work=The Catholic World Report}}{{Cite news|language=Spanish|title=Condenas por la Masacre de Pergamino - De 6 a 15 años de cárcel a los policías que dejaron morir en el incendio a los presos - Página-12 - Página12|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/237759-condenas-por-la-masacre-de-pergamino|last=Rodríguez|first=Carlos|date=December 21, 2019|access-date=September 4, 2023|work=Página 12}}