Ranquil massacre

Ranquil massacre
DateJune–July 1934
Location
Alto Bío Bío, Chile
Result Demands of the workers rejected, repressing peasant land seizures and strike repressed, Chilean government victory
Belligerents

Government of Chile

 Chilean forestry workers and peasants
Mapuche rebels
Commanders and leaders
Arturo Alessandri
Óscar Novoa
Humberto Arriagada Valdivieso
Lonko allies		 Militant workers
Lonkos
Peasants
Political support
Liberals
Conservatives		 Socialists
Communists
Casualties and losses
6 soldiers 477 workers and Mapuches

The Ranquil massacre (Spanish: matanza de Ránquil) was a massacre of forestry workers by the Chilean Army in the upper Bio-Bio River in 1934. The upper Bio-Bio region had recently been opened for Chilean and foreign settlers due to the occupation of the Araucania, and huge extensions of former Mapuche land were available. The workers rebelled against the lumber mill administrators, later the Chilean Army was called to restore order. 477 workers, many of them Mapuches, were killed as result. Around 500 prisoners were taken.

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