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Equatoguinean genocide | |
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Location | Equatorial Guinea |
Date | 1969 – 3 August 1979 |
Target | Bubi population, intellectuals, Christians |
Attack type | Genocide, mass murder |
Deaths | 50,000 – 80,000[1] |
Perpetrators | Government of Equatorial Guinea |
The Equatoguinean genocide was the mass murder that went on throughout the 1970s by President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, mostly of the Bubi people. Over a third of the population had fled to other countries to escape the killings.