El Mozote
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El Mozote is a village in the Morazán department in El Salvador. It was the site of the El Mozote massacre in December 1981 when nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by the US-trained Atlacatl battalion backed by the Salvadoran government.
In December of 1981, high in the mountains of El Salvador, in a little town called El Mozote, a whole town was destroyed by the most elite battalion of the Salvadoran army. Nobody was left alive except for one woman who later recounted the massacre. This event was kept secret for many years, denied by the right wing government of El Salvador and by the U.S. Government as well. As the years passed by, the evidence accumulated and eventually the mass graves were uncovered.
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