A Massacre Foretold is based on a real massacre of ho many people?
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A Massacre Foretold A Massacre Foretold is a 2007 documentary film by Nick Higgins. The film was released 10 years after the Acteal massacre in Chiapas, Mexico, of which the film is an account.
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Acteal massacre The Acteal massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was carried out on December 22, 1997, by the paramilitary group Mascara Roja, or Red Mask.
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Ruck Family massacre The Ruck Family massacre took place during the Mau Mau Uprising. Farmer Roger Ruck, his wife Esme and six-year-old son Michael, along with their African servants, were massacred by Mau Mau. The massacre shocked the European community in Kenya and led to 1,500 European settlers marching on the Governor demanding action.
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Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres The Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres took place near Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998, and involved hundreds of victims massacred by the Taliban.
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Massacre of Borovë The Massacre of Borovë occurred on July 9, 1943, in the village of Borovë, in southeastern Albania. German forces killed 107 civilians as a reprisal for a partisan attack on a German convoy the days before.
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Si Zerrouk massacre The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.
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Portadown massacre The Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 at what is now Portadown, County Armagh. Between 100 and 300 Protestants were killed in the River Bann by a group of O'Neill clansmen. This was the biggest individual massacre of Protestants during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
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Hathikhel massacre The Hathikhel massacre, also called the Hathi Khel incident, refers to the killing of about 80 civilians by men of the Frontier Constabulary and the British Indian Army on 24 August 1931 in the Bannu district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India.
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Punta Lobos massacre The Punta Lobos massacre refers to the unexplained murders of approximately 200 people in Punta Lobos, Peru, in 1350 AD.
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List of massacres in Afghanistan The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Afghanistan (numbers may be approximate):
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Hanapepe massacre The Hanapēpē Massacre (also called the Battle of Hanapēpē since both sides were armed) happened on September 9, 1924. Toward the end of a long-lasting strike of Filipino sugar workers on Kauaʻ i, Hawaiʻ i, local police shot dead nine strikers and fatally wounded seven, strikers shot and stabbed three sheriffs to death and fatally wounded one; a total of 20 people died. The massacre brought an end to armed protests in Hawaii.
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Douma massacre (2015) On August 16, 2015, the Syrian Air Force launched strikes on the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of Damascus, killing at least 96 people and injuring at least 200 others. The attack is one of the deadliest in the four-year history of the Syrian Civil War.
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Trabzon during the Armenian Genocide Trabzon was a city in the Ottoman Empire where the Armenian Genocide occurred. The method employed to kill was mainly by mass drowning resulting in estimated deaths of 50,000 Armenians. The city was also an important location of subsequent trials held to prosecute those involved with the systematic massacre.
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List of massacres in South Africa The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in South Africa (numbers may be approximate):
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February 28 Incident The February 28 Incident or the February 28 Massacre, also known as the 2.28 Incident (from ), was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government, which killed thousands of civilians beginning on February 28, 1947. The number of Taiwanese deaths is estimated to be 10,000. The massacre marked the beginning of the White Terror in which tens of thousands of other Taiwanese went missing, died or were imprisoned. The incident is one of the most important events in Taiwan's modern history and was a critical impetus for the Taiwan independence movement.
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List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War During the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, many massacres occurred. The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. In addition to generating a widespread sense of fear, the massacres effected migration from and depopulation of the worst-affected areas. The number of massacres peaked in 1997, with a smaller peak in 1994, and they were particularly concentrated in the areas between Algiers and Oran, with very few occurring in the east or in the Sahara.
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Kampala wedding massacre The Kampala wedding massacre was a mass murder that occurred at a wedding party in the Naguru neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda on June 26, 1994. The perpetrator, Richard Komakech, shot and killed 26 people at the party before he was apprehended and subsequently killed in revenge.
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Borno massacre The Borno massacre took place in Konduga, Borno State, on February 14, 2014. The massacre was conducted by Boko Haram Islamists against Christian Villagers in Borno State, Nigeria. Reportedly, the massacre led to the deaths of at least 121 people.
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1860 Mount Lebanon civil war The 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war (also called the 1860 Civil War in Syria) was the culmination of a peasant uprising, which began in the north of Mount Lebanon as a rebellion of Maronite peasants against their Druze overlords and culminated in a massacre in Damascus. It soon spread to the south of the country where the rebellion changed its character, with Druze turning against the Maronite Christians. Around 20,000 Christians were killed by the Druze and 380 Christian villages and 560 churches destroyed. The Druze and Muslims also suffered heavy losses.
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Kibeho massacre The Kibeho Massacre occurred in a camp for internally displaced persons near Kibeho, in south-west Rwanda on April 22, 1995. Australian soldiers serving as part of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda estimated at least 4,000 people in the camp were killed by soldiers of the military wing of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, known as the Rwandan Patriotic Army. The Rwandan Government's estimate of the number killed was about 338, according to President (at the time) Pasteur Bizimungu, in accordance with VP Paul Kagame.
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List of massacres in El Salvador The following are lists of massacres that have occurred in El Salvador (numbers may be approximate). There were some 27 separate documented civilian massacres in the Salvadoran Civil War era alone (1979-1985), in total the war directly claimed 70-80 thousand lives. Additional has claimed numerous activists, religious leaders, , mayors, and foreigners in the decades following the civil war until the present day.
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Kibeho Kibeho is a small town in south Rwanda, which became known outside of that country because of reported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ occurring between 1981 and 1989. It is also known for the Kibeho Massacre, in April 1995, where several thousand internally displaced people were killed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army.