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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Guyana (numbers may be approximate):
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Killing the Enmore Martyrs | June 16, 1948 | Enmore Sugar Estate, East Coast Demerara | 5 | Disciplined forces opened fire on sugar workers protesting conditions in the Sugar industry.[1] |
Wismar Massacre | May 26, 1964 | Wismar | 5 | Members of the majority Afro-Guyanese population attacked the Indo-Guyanese minority. In addition, to the murders, there were also rapes and incidents of arson.[2] |
Son Chapman Bombing | July 6, 1964 | Hurudaia, Demerara | 43 | Unknown persons placed a bomb on board the Son Chapman launch.[3] |
Jonestown massacre[4] | November 18, 1978 | Jonestown, Georgetown, & Port Kaituma | 918 | A mass suicide, led by American Jim Jones, over 900 killed by consuming cyanide. |
Buxton Massacre | December 9, 1994 | Buxton, East Coast Demerara | 6 | A known drug addict murdered his mother and five other villagers, before being killed by police officers.[5] |
Eccles-Agricola Massacre | February 26, 2006 | Eccles and Agricola, East Bank Demerara | 7 | Armed gunmen blocked the road, and carried out an hour long assault on the residents of Eccles and Argricola[6] |
Lusignan Massacre[7] | January 26, 2008 | Lusignan | 11 | Gang broke into multiple homes, connected to the Bartica Massacre.[8] |
Bartica massacre[9] | February 17, 2008 | Bartica, Essequibo | 12 | Gang killed three police before killing nine others in the town.[9] |
Lindo Creek Massacre | June 21, 2008 | Lindo Creek, Berbice | 8 | The charred bodies, bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered by the campsite owner. [10] |
Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge Massacre[11] | July 18, 2012 | Linden, Demerara | 3 | Three people were killed by police officers, when the police opened fired on prostestors against a recent increase in electricity rates.[12] |
Georgetown prison riot | March 3, 2016 | Georgetown | 17 | Inmates at the Georgetown Prison, rioted and burnt down part of the facility. 17 inmates were killed and several prison officers and prisoners were injured[13][14] |
Mahdia school fire | May 21, 2023 | Mahdia, Potaro-Siparun | 20 | A 15-year-old student set fire to a school in Mahdia, causing 19 deaths and 29 injuries. It was the first massacre to occur at a school in Guyana. |
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