The Trelew Massacre was a mass execution of 16 political prisoners, militants of different Peronist and leftist organizations, in Rawson prison by the military dictatorship of Argentina. The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and subsequently shot down by marines led by Lieutenant Commander Luis Emilio Sosa in a simulated new attempt to escape. The marines forced the prisoners to fake a new escape, then executed them as revenge by the Revolución Argentina for the successful escape of some of their comrades during the initial prison break. The massacre took place in the early hours of 22 August 1972 in the Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, an Argentine Navy airbase located near the city of Trelew, Chubut in Patagonia.
Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport
Argentine Revolution was the name given by its leaders to a military coup d'état which overthrew the government of Argentina in June 1966 and began a period of military dictatorship by a junta from then until 1973.
Generals Juan Carlos Onganía, Roberto Marcelo Levingston and Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, the three successive dictators of the "Revolución Argentina".
The Night of the Long Batons, an Onganía police action against University of Buenos Aires students and faculty came to be known.
Images of the Cordobazo, May–June 1969
