Mass Killings of Civilians

in the campaign “Suppression of the GULAG Uprisings (1953–1954)”

Mass killings of prisoners during the forcible suppression of the uprisings. In Norilsk, "about 100 people were killed and more than 200 wounded"[1]; in Kengir, "during the suppression of the uprising, about 700 prisoners were killed or wounded"[2].

ID: C0086.T0104
Start: May 1953
End: December 1954
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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