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1981 massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador
El Mozote
In December 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion, a U.S.-trained counterinsurgency force. The Reagan administration, determined to preserve U.S. support for El Salvador's war against leftist guerrillas, downplayed reports of this massacre. The White House ignored and deflected reports that hundreds of unarmed women, children and men were shot, hung or beheaded.
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Mintpress News
March 26, 2018
And there, on the third day, in the silence of the ruined hamlet of El Mozote, all the words and claims and counterclaims that had been loudly made for eleven years abruptly gave way before the mute force of material fact. The bones were there, the cartridges were there; the sleeping reality of El Mozote hadÃâà...
IR INSIDER (blog)
February 3, 2018
As part of the 36th anniversary of El Mozote Massacre, the government divulged the following information made available by records that have been collected since last year: “The record contains the names of 1698 victims. Of the 1698 victims, 986 were executed during El Mozote massacre, of which 552Ãâà...
International Policy Digest
January 11, 2018
The village of El Mozote was home to jornaleros (day laborers) and campesinos (land peasants), 794 of whom were murdered by the Salvadoran government. The existence of a massacre, though widely contested at the time, is no longer up for debate. Though the memories that could illuminate the exactÃâà...
Open Democracy
June 7, 2017
Memorial of massacre site at El Mozote, Morazan, El Salvador. Public Domain. In September 2016, after 35 years of relentless struggle, human rights defenders in El Salvador seized a new hope for truth and justice with the reopening of the El Mozote case by the Second Court of San Francisco de Gotera.
Inter Press Service
May 23, 2017
Sofia Romero Pineda, 55, and her grandson hold the few portraits she preserves of some of her family members killed during the military operation which slaughtered some 1,000 inhabitants of El Mozote and neighboring villages in eastern El Salvador. The portraits are of Simeona Vigil, her grandmother;Ãâà...
The Independent
April 28, 2017
Survivors of 1981's El Mozote massacre are closer than ever to justice after the reopening of an investigation, which started 25 years ago, into the army-led killing of about 1,000 people. The massacre is a horrific symbol of the unaccountability for atrocities in El Salvador's civil war. The killings wentÃâà...
The Independent
April 28, 2017
Survivors of 1981's El Mozote massacre are closer than ever to justice after the reopening of an investigation, which started 25 years ago, into the army-led killing of about 1,000 people. The massacre is a horrific symbol of the unaccountability for atrocities in El Salvador's civil war. The killings wentÃâà...
New York Times
December 16, 2016
Many assumed I died in the massacre of December 1981, when government soldiers killed hundreds of people in El Mozote, my village in El Salvador. The victims were accused of collaborating with left-wing guerrillas, but most of them were women, children and old people. Soldiers tortured my family,Ãâà...
Ridgecrest Daily Independent
December 31, 1999
With storylines including Frida Kahlo's dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Rufina Amaya's astounding singular survival of the massacre at El Mozote and Alfonsina Storni' lifelong challenges as Argentina's first great feminist poet. Tres Vidas presents dramatic situations timelessÃâà...
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