Roberto Silva Renard | |
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Died | July 7, 1920 | (aged 65)
Roberto Silva Renard (February 27, 1855 – July 7, 1920) was a Chilean military and political figure who served in the War of the Pacific and the 1891 Chilean Civil War. He is mostly remembered as the military chief that carried out the Santa María of Iquique School massacre in 1907, where 2,000-3,500 striking saltpeter miners, along with their wives and children, were killed.