Tarapoto massacre
1989 CE.
Shown on the map at -6.489°, -76.372°.
The Tarapoto massacre, also known as the Night of the Gardenias (Spanish: Noche de las Gardenias), was a selective massacre against LGBT people that took place on May 31, 1989, during the period of terrorism in Peru. A total of eight people were killed, who were captured in the Las Gardenias discotheque in the Peruvian city of Tarapoto (San Martín). The attack was perpetrated by members of the subversive group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and took place as part of the “crusades against vice”, campaigns of “social cleansing” that the group carried out in the Northeastern Front. The attack was the largest hate crime against transgender people in the history of Peru. and the largest kidnapping of non-heterosexual people until the one carried out in December of the same year in Picuruyacu (Huánuco) by another subversive group operating in Peru, Shining Path, against twelve young transgender people.
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