Qualla: Concepción Massacre https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Concepción Massacre https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre Concepción Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre/ They were called by name. That was the cruelty of it - not the chaos of a battlefield but a list, read aloud in the town square, with each family separated out and led away. By April 1869, the Paraguayan War had bled the country of its men, so the people who answered the summons in Concepción were overwhelmingly women and the young. They had done nothing. The conspiracy they were accused of joining most likely never existed at all.

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/z/4/concepcion-massacre-wp/6ez4-concepci-n-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Concepción Massacre: A War Already Lost https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre/ To understand what happened here, you have to understand how desperate Paraguay had become. The war against the Triple Alliance - Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay - had ground on since 1864, and by early 1869 the capital, Asunción, had fallen. President Francisco Solano López was i...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/z/4/concepcion-massacre-wp/6ez4-concepci-n-massacre-a-war-already-lost.mp3 0:06 2 full Concepción Massacre: The List and the Square https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre/ The man sent to carry out the killings was Major José Gregorio Benítez, known by the Guaraní nickname Toro Pichaí - the hirsute bull - and already notorious as a torturer. His method was bureaucratic and unhurried. Arriving in a town, he would order the entire population to gathe...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/z/4/concepcion-massacre-wp/6ez4-concepci-n-massacre-the-list-and-the-square.mp3 0:06 3 full Concepción Massacre: Why It Happened https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre/ Historians still debate the precise trigger. One account holds that López ordered a punitive expedition against Concepción's commandant, suspected of preparing to declare it an open city - to surrender it peacefully to the advancing Brazilians rather than see it burn. Another see...

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]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/z/4/concepcion-massacre-wp/6ez4-concepci-n-massacre-why-it-happened.mp3 0:06 4 full Concepción Massacre: What Endures https://qualla.com/concepcion-massacre/ Concepción survived. The river port recovered, the grand Italianate houses still line its streets, and the city went on to its quieter twentieth century. But the massacre lingers in the historical record as one of the war's most intimate horrors - not a clash of armies but the de...

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