EVENT INFORMATION

23
Yüni
1937

Police gunfire kills workers during unrest in Rio Claro

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📅 23 Yüni 1937 📍

A 28 June 1937 statement in the British House of Commons reported that on 23 June the Governor had informed officials of unrest in Rio Claro: police fired back at a crowd and four people were killed. Later accounts differ on the date and toll: the National Trust places the Rio Claro violence on 22 June and reports five deaths. This entry uses the contemporaneous parliamentary date while preserving the discrepancy. Colonial records frame the deaths as a response to rioting; the loss of working people must also be situated within the coercive response to labour protest.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Rio Claro workers and residents

colonial police

Governor of Trinidad

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Rio Claro community

Trinidad colonial government