List of massacres in Brazil

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Brazil (numbers may be approximate):

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Niterói circus fire 17 December 1961 Niterói, Rio de Janeiro 503[1] 800+ wounded, Three people were arrested and convicted of starting the fire[2]
Massacre at 11th Parallel 1963 Mato Grosso 3,500 Only two villagers survived
Ipatinga massacre October 7, 1963 Minas Gerais 8 (Oficially) 79 wounded
Barra do Garças air disaster June 1, 1980 Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso 8 (including the perpetrator) 4 Wounded, Case of Suicide by pilot
Helmet massacre March 28, 1988 Amazonas 4 19 wounded, Government workers massacre unarmed Ticuna.
1989 Santa Elmira massacre March 11, 1989 Rio Grande do Sul 19 400 injured, MST workers attempted to occupy an area in Salto do Jacuí, but are shot at by UDR rural owners
Carandiru massacre October 2, 1992 São Paulo 111
Haximu massacre 1993 Haximu, Brazil 16-73
Candelária massacre July 23, 1993 Rio de Janeiro 8
Vigário Geral massacre August 29, 1993 Rio de Janeiro 21
Slaughter of Corumbiara August 9, 1995 Corumbiara Rondônia 12 (Oficially)
Eldorado dos Carajás massacre April 17, 1996 Pará 19
Barreiros massacre May 21-22, 1997 Rio Grande do Norte 15 (including the perpetrator) 1 wounded
Parque Oeste massacre February 16, 2005 Goias 2 40 wounded. Unknown missing. Over 20 killed in aftermath.
Baixada massacre March 31, 2005 Baixada Fluminense 29 2 wounded, A military police officer shot and killed dozens of Brazilians after forming a gang, and was sentenced to 543 years in prison.
Militias–Comando Vermelho massacres December 27, 2006-Today State of Rio de Janeiro 500.000+ deaths [3]
Complexo do Alemão massacre June 27, 2007 Rio de Janeiro 19
Rio de Janeiro school shooting April 7, 2011 Rio de Janeiro 12 20 wounded. All children aged 10–13.
Campinas massacre December 31, 2016 Campinas 13 3 wounded
2017 Manaus prison riot[4] January 1, 2017 Manaus 56
2017 Santa Lúcia massacre[5][6][7][8] May 24, 2017 Fazenda Santa Lúcia, Pau d'Arco, Pará 10 17 military and civilian police shot and killed 10 farm-occupying activists associated with the Landless Workers' Movement.
Janaúba massacre October 5, 2017 Minas Gerais 14 37 wounded
Goyases School shooting October 20, 2017 Goiânia, Goiás 2 4 wounded
Fortaleza Nightclub Shooting[9] January 27, 2018 Cajazeiras, Fortaleza 14 9 Wounded
Campinas Cathedral shooting December 11, 2018 Campinas, São Paulo 5 (including the perpetrator) 4 injured non-fatally
Suzano massacre March 13, 2019 Suzano 8 8 victims + 2 attackers, 20+ injured, mostly children.
2019 Altamira prison riot July 29, 2019 Altamira, Pará 62 16 prisoners were beheaded, and a further 41 people died from inhaling smoke from a fire lit at the beginning of the riot.[10]
Belém bar shooting May 19, 2019 Belém, Pará 11 A group of heavily-armed men — riding on a motorcycle and in three cars — went on a shooting rampage at a bar in Brazil, killing at least 11 people on Sunday[11]
Saudades massacre May 4, 2021 Saudades, Santa Catarina 5
Aracruz school shootings November 25, 2022 Aracruz, Espírito Santo 4 12 wounded
Sinop massacre[12] February 21, 2023 Sinop, Mato Grosso 7 Two gunmen opened fire at a bar in Sinop, killing seven people, including a 12-year-old girl.
Blumenau massacre April 5, 2023 Blumenau, Santa Catarina 4 4 wounded[13]

References
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  2. "O espetáculo mais triste da terra (book review)" (in Portuguese). Biblioteca Pública de Niterói. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
  3. "A violência no Brasil mata mais que a Guerra na Síria". 11 December 2017.
  4. "Brazil drug gangs spark prison riot, 56 dead". Reuters.com. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  5. "Brazil: Pau D'Arco is the second largest slaughter for land conflicts in 20 years; company comments". Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  6. "Brazil: Authorities must not let the Pau D'Arco massacre go unpunished". Amnesty International. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  7. "As Fires Rage in the Amazon, Brazil Massacres Activists Trying to Save the Rain Forest". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-03-28. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  8. "Brazil: two years since the Pau d'Arco massacre, still no justice". Front Line Defenders. 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  9. "Brazil: Gunmen storm Fortaleza nightclub killing 14". BBC.com. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  10. "Brazil jail riot leaves at least 57 dead". BBC. 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  11. "Brazil officials say 11 dead in 'massacre' at Belém bar".
  12. "Polícia identifica autores de chacina em Sinop". G1.com. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  13. Buschschlüter, Vanessa. "Brazil kindergarten attack: Man kills four children in Blumenau". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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