Mirabal Sisters Assassination of 3 sisters in Dominican Republic

Maria Teresa, Minerva and Patria Mirabel were assassinated for opposing the dictatorship of Rafael Truijillo.

Truijillo invited Minerva and her family to a party and made sexual advances towards her, she refused . He became her enemy. He imprisoned her father who died shortly after his release.
Minerva had studied law but Truijillo prevented her obtaining her degree.

Minerva was the most active of the three sisters being the founder of
June 14 Revolutionary Movement. - an underground revolutionary dedicated to ending his regime. The older sister, Patria, lent her house to store weapons and tools.

Truijillo be came aware of their clandestine activities. He arrested the sisters and their husbands. After several months he released the wives.

He set a trap. The husbands were transferred to a remote prison. On a visit to their husbands the secret police intercepted them, beat them to death, placed their bodies in a car and sent it off a cliff. They died on 25th November 1960.

Historians believe it marked the limits of domestic and international tolerance in the Dominion Republic…The truth behind the assassinations was an open secret. May1961 Truijillo was killed by a group of conspirators.

The fourth sister, Dede (or Adela ), did not join the resistance but played a pivotal role by turning their home into a mausoleum in their memory.
The remains of the 3 resistance fighters rest in the mausoleum. It was declared an extension of the National Pantheon and located in the Hermanas Mirabal House Museum

The sisters today are revered as national heroines, 'las Mariposas’ (the butterflies).

Sources
Wikipedia
RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi